Hellenistic Sculpture
Hellenistic Sculpture
Hellenistic Sculpture
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Laocoön and his sons<br />
• Now in the Vatican, discovered in 1506 on the<br />
Esquiline Hill in Rome.<br />
• Dated ca. 100 CE.<br />
• Perhaps the same statue by three Rhodian<br />
sculptors--Hagesandros, Polydoros, and<br />
Athenadoros, praised by Pliny (NH 36.37),<br />
who saw it in the house of the emperor Titus.<br />
• Shows the Trojan priest Laocoön and his two<br />
sons, attacked at an altar by two large<br />
serpents (for the story see Vergil, Aeneid<br />
2.199-233).
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