Laocoon2.0100

Laocoon2.0100_Locher

Vatican Laocoon
Ver. Aen. 2.40-56, 190-240
Apollodorus Libr. E. 5.17-18

Locher comments upon a mundane matter, making it epic in its proportions.

Daumier's political irreverance is most on display in his "Gargantua" (1831), and his classicizing wit in "Pygmalion" (1842).

Delteil 1906 - 30, 28: no. 3632 ill.

figure 82 in Grafton, Most, and Settis, The Classical Tradition, s.v. "parodies"

A man reading an "Art History" book sees a vision of the Laocoön group entangled by gas pump hoses from a "Gasoline Prices" sign

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
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