According to The Oresteia by Aeschylus, Clytemnestra was enraged when her husband and king of Mycenae Agamemnon sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia to propitiate the gods and gain favorable winds to sail to Troy to make war. On Agamemnon's return from the siege of Troy, Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus killed him.
Jean Baptiste Cléry, the personal cameriere (valet) of King Louis XVI during his imprisonment, published his journal of the revolution, Journal de ce qui s'est passé à la tour du Temple pendant la captivité de Louis XVI, in 1798. It contained a moving account of the king's treatment at the hands of the revolutionary government and his last farewell to his family before his death. and
The prototypic romantic femme fatal, Cleopatra VII Philopator was the lover of Julius Caesar, later wife of Mark Antony, and final ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. After the assassination of Caesar, Cleopatra allied herself with the Second Triumvirate, whose foremost members were Antony and Octavian. Cleopatra and Antony began their love affair while Antony remained married to Octavian's sister, Octavia, and Antony became heavily reliant on Cleopatra as a source of funding and military aid.
Character in Samuel Richardson's The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753-4). Clementina, an Italian woman, is one of the four rivals vying for the affection of the eponymous hero.
Born Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, Clement XIV was the pope from 1769-1774. He authored the brief Dominus ac Redemptor (1773), which suppressed the Society of the Jesuits.
Born Giulio de'Medici, Clement VII's eleven years of papal authority were characterized by religious, military, and political conflict in the wake of the Protestant Reformation.
The eponymous heroine of a novel by Mme. de Scudéry.
English composer, violinist, and member of the king's band from 1692 to 1702. Clayton wrote the music for Joseph Addison's libretto to create their opera Rosamond (1707).
Uncle to the title character in William Shakespeare's drama Hamlet. Claudius kills the king, Hamlet's father, and ascends to the throne.
Heroine of Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa (1747-9).
