Laocoon2.0102

Laocoon2.0102_Addams

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ClCv241

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Vatican Laocoon
Ver. Aen. 2.40-56, 190-240
OGCMA s.v. "Laocoon"

Charles Addams, Laocoon among the sausages, parodic cartoon, The New Yorker

Addams is working clearly with the iconic image of the Vatican Laocoon. More, similar treatments are listed at OGCMA/fm

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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, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.