113
CLEOPATRA, Isis unveiled, 86;
her beauty, 88;
her headiness, 89;
how treated by Caesar, 89;
how treated by Antony, 91;
her conquest of Antony, 91-92;
her ambitious dreams, 92;
her desertion of Antony, 93;
her schemes for Octavius, 94;
her evil influence on Antony, 94-95;
her death, 96
CLOISTER, the, 128-129
CONSTANTINOPLE, the Fall of, 198;
its consequences, 199-200
CONVENTS, of Corinth and Miletus, 58
COPERNICUS, 200
COQUETRY, the kingdom of, by the Abbe d'Aubignac, 229
CORDOVA, Caliphs of, 164-165
CORINNA, 100
CORINTH, the hetairae of, 56;
convents of, 58
CORNEILLE, his _Rodrigue and Chimene_, 230;
his _Cid_, 230-231
CORREGGIO, 132
COURTS of Love, 155-157
CRASSUS, 84
CRUSADES, the, 138
CYNTHIA and Propertius, 98
DANTE, and Beatrice, 98;
his idea of Fortune, 33;
his poetry founded in Provencal verse, 172;
his early life and career, 177-184;
Voltaire's opinion of, 181;
Tennyson's opinion of, 181;
his influence, 182;
and Petrarch, compared, 186-187
D'AUBIGNAC, Abbe, his Kingdom of Coquetry, 229
D'AUVERGNE, Martial, 159
DECAMERONE, Il, its scope and influence, 188-90
DEMOSTHENES, 61
DE MUSSET, on Aphrodite, 31
DIANE DE POYTIERS, 216-217
DIVANS, the, of the Moors, 171
DIVORCE, in Greece in Sappho's time, 43;
not obligatory under the Caesars, 103;
how obtained under the Caesars, 103;
under the later Church, 148;
in England under Henry VIII, 204;
in Italy, 205
DON QUIXOTE, 148-149
DU BARRY, Duchesse de, 244, 247
DUPLEIX, his account of Margot of France, 219
D'URFE, HONORE, his pastoral, 227
ECCLESIASTICUS, his view of woman, 10
EGYPT, position of women in, 45;
influence of women of, 46;
its acceptance of beauty, 87-88;
the gods of, 87-88
ELEANOR of England, 141
ELEUSINIAN mysteries, 57;
Epiphanies, 72-73
ENGLAND, born of Shakespeare, 182;
divorce in, 204-205;
Puritan, 221;
Elizabethan, 221-222;
Early Stuart, 221;
Cromwellian, 222;
under the Georges, 243
ENNIUS, 105
EPICURUS, 29, 61
ERATO, finds freedom in Lesbos, 46
ERINNA, 47
ERMENGARDE of Narbonne, 160
EROS, degraded by Rome, 104
EURIPIDES, 29
EUROPE, after the fall of Rome, 126;
how influenced by Islam, 141-142;
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