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What fate did Poseidon provide Laocoon and his two sons?
When Laocoon was preparing to sacrifice a bull to Poseidon, suddenly two fearful serpents were seen swimming towards the Trojan coast from Tenedos. They rushed towards Laocoon, who, while all the people took to flight, remained with his two sons standing by the altar of the god. The serpents first entwined the two boys, and then the father, who went to the assistance of his children, and all three were killed. However, some argue that it was not Poseidon who did this, but Athena or Apollo.
Who helped kill laocoon and his two sons?
Athena sends two giant sea serpents to strangle and kill him and his two sons. In another version of the story, it was said that Poseidon sent the sea serpents to strangle and kill Laocoön and his two sons.
How did laocoon and his 2 sons die?
Athena sends two giant sea serpents to strangle and kill him and his two sons. In another version of the story, it was said that Poseidon sent the sea serpents to strangle and kill Laocoön and his two sons.
Who was laocoon killed by?
Athena sends two giant sea serpents to strangle and kill him and his two sons. In another version of the story, it was said that Poseidon sent the sea serpents to strangle and kill Laocoön and his two sons.
What happen to Laocoon?
Athena sends two giant sea serpents to strangle and kill him and his two sons. In another version of the story, it was said that Poseidon sent the sea serpents to strangle and kill Laocoön and his two sons.
Who send what to Laocoon and his two son?
Athena sends two giant sea serpents to strangle and kill him and his two sons. In another version of the story, it was said that Poseidon sent the sea serpents to strangle and kill Laocoön and his two sons.
In book two of the Aeneid the two characters who warn against the trogan horse are?
Laocoon, a prophet of Poseidon, tries to tell the Trojans about the evils of the horse. As he speaks, two serpents arrive and eat Laocoon and his two sons. Later, Cassandra, a prophetess, tells the Trojans about the doom they will incur if they bring the horse into the city. Unfortunately, Cassandra has been cursed so that she speaks the truth, but no one will ever believe her.
How do you think laocoon felt when the Greeks finally came out of the wooden horse?
He didn't feel anything; Laocoon was dead before the Trojan Horse went through the walls of Troy, he and his two sons had been killed by sea serpents.
In the Aeneid how is the death of Laocoon interpreted?
Laocoon begs the other Trojans to see the wooden horse as an enemy to the Trojans, asking them if wily Ulysses (Odysseus) would really just leave their shores without an attempt to sack the city. Sinon, a member of the Greeks recently captured in Trojan hands claims the horse is really a monument to Minerva. When Laocoon throws his spear at the wooden horse, he therefore is interpreted as "angering" Minerva, who then sends twin serpents to kill Laocoon's two sons and finally himself. The rest of the Trojans, not wanting to anger Minerva, drag the horse into their city, sealing their fate and allowing the city to be sacked that same mnight.
Whom is Arete a descendent of?
Arete is a descendant of Poseidon, who, making love to Periboea, begot Nausithous, who in turn had two sons, Rhexenor and Alcinous. Rhexenor later spawned Arete with Apollo.
Are cyclopes the children of Poseidon?
There are two distinct groups of Cyclops. The first were the brothers who were the monstrous sons of Kronos and Rhea. They were Brontes, Steropes and Arges and is is they who forged Zeus' thunderbolts.The second group were shepherds on an unnamed island. The only one named was Polyphemus and it was he who was tricked and blinded by Odysseus. They are most usually cited as being sons of Poseidon and Thoosa.
Where do they get the saying beware of the Greeks bearing gifts?
From the Iliad, the Trojan Horse - a gift of the Greeks. --more precisely a quote from the Aeneid. Laocoon, a priest of Poseidon, tries in vain to warn the Trojans about the horse, but at the moment he speaks out, he and his two sons are strangled by sea serpents (a punishment for procreating on ground sacred to poseidon). The Trojans took this is a sign to ignore his warnings and allowed the horse (and the Greeks it carried) into the city. The line reads: Equo ne credite, Tuecri! Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et ferentis Translated: Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even bearing gifts
