TOS, 28

HERODOTUS, on Ishtar, 5, 6

HESIOD, his idea of Aphrodite, 31;
Eve suggested by his Pandora, 40

HETAIRA, the, 55

HETAIRAE, the girls of the, 56-57

HELOISE and Abelard, story of, 136-137

HEPTAMERON, the, 209-210

HERMAS, 118

HERMITS, the outcome of Christianity, 116

HOME, the outcome of a better treatment of woman, 2

HOMER, 28;
his influence on Greek thought, 29;
his faith in beauty, 29;
_Iliad_ and _Odyssey_ of, 30;
his idea of Aphrodite, 31;
_Odyssey_ and _Iliad_, morality of, 38;
the sirens of, 39-40

HONOR, the chivalrous meaning of, 143

HORACE, his view of the _Iliad_, 38;
compared with Sappho, 47;
"the little fat man," 98-99;
his art as sung by Ponsard, 99-100

HORUS, 87

HUGO, VICTOR, 213

HUNS, their invasion of Rome, 121

_Iliad_, the, its view of woman, 62-63

IMMORTALITY, love of, 70

INFANTICIDE, in Rome, 118

INQUISITION, founded, 176

ISHTAR, her influence in the world, 4;
history of, 5, 6;
worship of, identical with the Hindu Kama-dasi, 6;
in Greece, 6;
rites of, 6, 7

ISIS, 87, 88

ISLAM, its influence on Europe, 141-142

ISLAMISM, treatment of women under, 169-170

JEHOVAH, the evolution of, among the Jews, 11, 12

JEWS, their view of woman, 10;
their prophets reviled the worship of Ashtaroth, 11, 12;
evolution of Jehovah among the, 11, 12;
their message for Rome, 110-11

JOY, the Parliaments of, 150-163

JUDAEA, did not honor women, 10;
the position of the patriarch in, 10;
and Greece, contrasted, 28

JULIUS II, 202

JUVENAL, 103

KAMA-DASI, the Hindu, identical with worship of Ishtar, 6

KNIGHTHOOD, its meaning, 144

KNIGHT-ERRANTRY, 161-162

KORAN, a precept in, 168-169

LACEDAEMON, 63;
its effect on Sparta and Greece, 63

LAIS, her epitaph, 58;
wealth of, 59

LAURA and Petrarch, 183-188;
the quality of her love, 187-188;
her position between Dante and Boccaccio, 188

LA VALLIERE, 232-233

LEONORA D'ESTE, 208;
her character, 210

LEO X, 201;
his expression of the Papacy, 202

LEPIDUS, 90

LESBOS, the women of, 44-45;
women of, influenced by Egypt, 46

L'ESTOILE, PIERRE DE, 219, 220

LIFE, Definition of, 70

LONDON, in the Georgian period, 243

LONGINUS, his reverence for Sappho, 47

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