We study the nonlinear elliptic system of Lane-Emden typein Ω,where Ω is an open bounded subset of ℝ , ≥ 2, > 1 and : Ω × ℝ → ℝ is a Carathéodory function satisfying suitable growth assumptions. Existence and multiplicity results are proved by means of a generalized Weierstrass Theorem and a variant of the Symmetric Mountain Pass Theorem.