Uncoiling the Laocoon: Revealing the Statue Group's Significance in Augustan Rome

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dc.contributor.advisorVenit, Marjorie Sen_US
dc.contributor.authorHwang, HyoSil Suzyen_US
dc.contributor.departmentArt History and Archaeologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2008-04-22T16:08:59Z
dc.date.available2008-04-22T16:08:59Z
dc.date.issued2007-12-10en_US
dc.description.abstractSince its rediscovery in Rome in 1506, the Laocoon has raised issues regarding its date, its owner, its status as a Roman copy of a Greek original, and which literary account it reflects. It was not until a telling inscription with the names and patronymics of the artists was found on a statue group at Sperlonga that the same atelier working there was found responsible for creating the Laocoon. This led prosopographical experts to date the sculptors' activity to the early decades of the Roman Empire and while this date has been accepted by most scholars of Hellenistic art, the implications of situating the Laocoon in this period has not been fully explored. This thesis examines the statue group in conjunction to other artistic and literary projects under Augustus, and determines that the Laocoon functioned as a symbol of past struggles overcome in order for Rome's glory to be realized.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/7808
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArt Historyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledLaocoonen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledGreek sculptureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHellenisitic arten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledRomeen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAugustusen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledVirgil's Aeneiden_US
dc.titleUncoiling the Laocoon: Revealing the Statue Group's Significance in Augustan Romeen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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