Laocoön (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Laocoön (; Ancient Greek: Λαοκόων, ) may refer to the following personages:

Laocoön or Lacoon, one of the ArgonautsHyginus, Fabulae 14Nonnus, 13.87Apollonius of Rhodes, 1.192 and a bastard son of King Porthaon of Calydon by a servant woman and thus half-brother to Oeneus. Oeneus, now growing old, sent his brother Laocoon to guard his young son Meleager during their journey to Colchis. Laocoön, the Trojan priest of Poseidon.Apollodorus, Epitome 5.18

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