CHRIST, the new messenger of love, 111; the bringer of good news, 111-112; his teaching, 112-113; preceded by Buddha, 113; his opinion of woman, 113; his treatment of woman, 115; women the brides of, 133 CHRISTIANITY, unable to better Homeric faith, 30; Roman hatred of, 120; misinterpreted by the early Church, 135; conquered by Muhammadanism, 138 CHRISTIANS, Roman persecution of, 118-119 CHRYSOSTOM, on woman, 128 CHURCH, Early Christian, corner-stone of, 112 CHURCH, the, adopts the code of Chivalry, 142 CHURCH, the Early, its struggles, 119 CHURCH, the later, its restrictions on marriage, 147, 148; its divorce laws, 148 CICERO, his exposition of stoicism, 108 CINDERELLA, story of, in the story of Rhodopis, 45-46 CIRCE, 38, 39 CLEMENT, 118 CLEMENT of Alexandria, 113 CLEOPATRA, Isis unveiled, 86; her beauty, 88; her headiness, 89; how treated by Cæsar, 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 Abbé d'Aubignac, 229 CORDOVA, Caliphs of, 164-165 CORINNA, 100 CORINTH, the hetairæ of, 56; convents of, 58 CORNEILLE, his _Rodrigue and Chimène_, 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 Provençal 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, Abbé, 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 Cæsars, 103; how obtained under the Cæsars, 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'URFÉ, HONORÉ, 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