Laocoon's sons

Family: The Trojans · Role: sons · First appears: Book XII · Part 3

Life events

Athena sent two serpents to Troy, and they seized and killed Laocoon's sons.(Book XII · Part 3 · 📍 Troy)
- With: Athena
- “Swiftly they came Whither the Goddess sped them: with grim jaws Whetting their deadly fangs, on his hapless sons Sprang they.”
The serpents devoured Laocoon's two sons as he was unable to help them.(Book XII · Part 3 · 📍 Troy)
- “Then, even as from destruction shrank the lads, Those deadly fangs had seized and ravined up The twain, outstretching to their sightless sire Agonized hands: no power to help had he.”
The sons were commemorated with a cenotaph, over which their blind father wept.(Book XII · Part 3 · 📍 Pergamus)
- With: Laocoon
- “Gathered, and reared a cenotaph for those Who miserably had perished. Over it Their father from his blind eyes rained the tears:”

parent: Laocoon “Alone was left Laocoon with his sons, For death's doom and the Goddess chained their feet.”
parent: Laocoon's sons' mother (The passage identifies her as their mother; it does not give her personal name.) “Over the empty tomb their mother shrieked, Boding the while yet worse things, wailing o'er The ruin wrought by folly of her lord,”

Extracted from the original text of The Fall of Troy. Made with Rho MD.