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  • Seminary group on the Classical Tradition
    A gallery of literary and figurative sources on Laocoon's myth in antiquity
    The gallery presents a complete set of images and texts regarding the episode of Laocoon's death in antiquity, from CVIIth BC to the renowned Vatican marble.

  • Seminary group on the Classical Tradition
    Laocoon: variations on myth
    The iconographical fortune of the myth of the Troyan priest in antiquity is bound to the diffusion of its literary sources, particularly a lost drama by Sophocles and Vergilius' Aeneid: the essay studies the variations of Laocoon's myth in antiquity both in texts and images, and widens its analysis offering notes on the finding of the Vatican Laocoon in 1506, on its archaelogical context, and on the history of its restorations from Renaissance to contemporary age.
  • Alessandra Pedersoli
    Comics spolia. Laocoonte, Asterix & Co.
    The renowned strips by Goscinny and Uderzo, Asterix, intertwine allusions to contemporary personalities (mostly French), and quotations from the classical world. In the album Asterix and Caesar's wreath an amusing sequence of spolia provides a range of uses of 'classical' models, from Rodin's Thinker to the Vatican Laocoon.
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