The Death of Cleonice by Jacques Louis David
© Bridgeman Art Library / Musee des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France / Giraudon
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- Jacques Louis David
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La Mort de Cleonice; Pausanias (d.470 BC): nephew of Spartan King Leonidas and general of Spartan army at battle of Plataea in 479 BC; forced young maiden, Cleonice, to sleep with him and when entering his bedroom by mistake she knocked over a lamp; he thought she was attacking him and killed her; for the rest of his life he was haunted by nightmares because of this tragic error;
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