MOSLEMS, chivalry of, 141

MUHAMMAD, conquers Persia, 139;
the two things he really cared for, 168

NATURE, early man, attitude toward, 2

NAUSICAA, 38

NEBUCHADNEZZAR, 41

NEPENTHE, an Egyptian drug, 36

NINEVEH, its influence on Babylon, 3, 4

NOSTRADAMUS, 153, 155

NUNS, 131

OCTAVIUS, 90;
a model citizen, 93;
his opinion of Cleopatra, 93;
war with Antony, 93-94;
his design against Cleopatra, 95;
defeated by Cleopatra's death, 95-96

ODYSSEUS, 38;
Homer's service to, 38

_Odyssey_, the, its view of woman, 63

OLYMPUS, kindly to its worshippers, 30;
influence of the gods of, on Greek mind, 33

OMPHALE, 56

ORPHEUS, and Eurydice, 30

OSIRIS, 87, 88

OVID, his picture of Sappho, 51;
his "Art of Love," 100;
poet of pleasure, 100-101;
his banishment, 101

PALLAS, 59

PALMER, BARBARA, 224

PANDORA, 40;
picture of, of Chaldaean origin, 40

PANTHEON, Roman, a lupanar, 105

PAPACY, the, its war against the troubadours, 176;
as expressed by Leo X, 202

PARIS, and Helen, 37

PARIS, love in, under Francois I, 215

PATRIARCH, the, his position in Judaea, 10

PAUL III, 202

PAUL, St., his humiliation of woman, 114;
on the dignity of marriage, 119-120;
his view of Christianity, 134-135

PERICLES, his relation with Aspasia, 56;
his deification, 61;
Age of, the period of Greek decline, 61

PERSEUS, on Roman thought and life, 104

PETRARCH, his poetry, 172;
and Laura, 183-188;
and Dante compared, 186-187;
his love for Laura, 187-188

PHAEDRUS, 73-74;
its theory of Beauty, 73-74

PHAON, his relation with Sappho, 49-51

PHEIDIAS, influence of his Zeus on AEmilius Paulus, 31-32

PHILIP of Macedon, 63

PHILIPPUS, 57

PHOENICIA, furnished girls for Greek harems, 6

PHRYNE, 57;
as Aphrodite, 57;
her acquital before the Areiopagus, 57-58;
Praxiteles's statue of, 58;
her wealth, 59

PINDAR, 61

PLATO, his opinion of Sappho, 47;
healer of the mind, 65;
his teaching, 65;
his view of love, 65-66;
his _Phaedrus_ and _Symposion_, 65-66;
his _Phaedrus_, 73-74;
his theory of beauty in the _Phaedrus_, 73-74;
his _Republic_, 202;
his _Symposion_, 203

PLATONISM, its view of matrimony interpreted, 205;
its influence on love, 206-207;
its three saints, 201;