That advance, if effected, love will achieve. In its history, already long, yet relatively brief, it has changed the face of the earth. It has transformed laws and religions. It has reversed and reconstructed every institution human and divine. As yet its evolution is incomplete. But when the final term is reached, then, doubtless, the words of the Apocalypse shall be realized, for all things will have been made anew. FINIS HISTORIÆ AMORIS INDEX ABAILARD and Héloïse, story of, 136-137 ACADEME of Athens, 46; of Mitylene, 46, 47; its teaching to women, 58-59 ACTIUM, 93 ADAM and EVE, married before mated, 1; their union a Persian conceit, 1 ADULTERY, as represented by the Restoration Dramatists, 223 ALARIC, 120 ALCHEMY, 193 ALCIBIADES, 43 ÆMILIUS PAULUS, 83 ÆSCULAPIUS, created to heal the body, 65 AFFINITIES, Elective, 241 AGREDA, 238 ALEXANDER, his bad influence on Greek worship of beauty, 59; his _decensus Averni_, 63-64; the prototype of the Roman Cæsars, 64 ALBIGENSES, the, 175 ANACREON, his treatment of love, 54; compared with Sappho's singing, 54 ANAÏTIS, 5 ANDRÉ, Maître, 152 ANDROMEDA, the Friend of Sappho, 47 ANNE, Queen, 237 ANTONINUS PIUS, 108 ANTONINUS, MARCUS, 108 ANTONY, 90; his treatment of Cleopatra, 91; his conquest by Cleopatra, 91-92; his marriage with Cleopatra, 92; his divorce of Octavia, 93; war with Octavius, 93-94; deserted by Cleopatra, 93; his ruin by Cleopatra, 94-95 APELLES, 61 APHRODITE, worship of, in Greece, 31, 32; De Musset on, 31; Homer's idea of, different from Hesiod's, 31; Hesiod's, 34; death of, in Greece, 64; inspired sculpture in her death, 64; Urania, 28-40; Pandemos, 55; Pandemos, love inspired by, 67; Urania, love inspired by, 67; degraded by Rome, 104 APIS, 104 APOLLONIUS of Tyana, his view of Helen of Troy, 36 AQUINAS, Thomas, 193 "ARABIAN Nights, The," 139-140 ARABS, in Spain, 163-167 ARAGON, the source of the _gaya cienca_, 172 ARISTOPHANES, 29; Athenian women in, 42; his explanation of the duality of love, 69-70 ARISTOTLE, 61 ARMENIA, its contribution to Babylon, 3 ART, Greek, bad influence of, on the worship of Aphrodite, 32 ARTHUR, King, story of, 152 ASCETICISM, its persistence, 118-119 ASHTAROTH, 5; ruled in Judæa, 11; reviled by the Hebrew Prophets, 11, 12 ASPASIA, the age of, 53-64; her relation with Pericles, 56; her story, 56-57; the ruler of Pericles, 62; her power over Pericles, 63; what she did for woman, 62; her revelation of womanly power, 63 ASTARTE, 5; came to Rome from Syria, 104 ASTRONOMY, relation to love, 68 ATHENS, in the age of Pericles, 59-60; and Sparta, duel between, 60-61 ATTHIS, lover of Sappho, 49 ATTILA, 121; his death, 121 ATTRACTION, the law of, 259