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Erasistratus Discovering the Cause of Antiochus' Disease is completed

1774 CE · Europe · Culture

Erasistratus Discovering the Cause of Antiochus' Disease is completed
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Erasistratus Discovering the Cause of Antiochus' Disease is a 1774 oil painting by French neoclassical artist Jacques-Louis David. The work is a history painting depicting an episode from Plutarch's Lives in which Greek court physician Erasistratus diagnoses the illness of Antiochus, the son of Seleucus I, as lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice.

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