Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and ModernSaltus, Edgar
Philosophy
Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern
Saltus, Edgar
Love
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 Islâm, 141-142;
before the Renaissance, 198-199;
in the eighteenth century, 244-245
EURYDICE and Orpheus, 30
EVE, suggested by Hesiod's Pandora, 40
EVOLUTION, 260
EWALD, on "The Song of Songs," 15
EZ ZAHARA, 164-165
FABIOLA, 147
FAMILY, the, the outcome of a better treatment of, 2
FÉNÉLON, and Quietism, 239
FEUDALISM, its origin, 125;
its bad influence on woman, 146;
marriage under, 146-147
FICINO, 203-204
FLORENCE, in the time of Dante, 177
FRAGONARD, 246
FRANCESCA and Paolo, 182
FRANÇOIS I, the king of Gallantry, 213, 214;
the Court of, 214
FRIGHT, early man's first sensations, 2
GABRIELLE d'Estrées, 219-220
GALLANTRY, as defined by Montesquieu, 213;
the parody of love, 213;
embellishes vice, 213;
the direct cause of the French Revolution, 213;
adopted by François I, 214
GAUTIER, THÉOPHILE, his definition of love, 251
GAY Science, the, 164-176;
founded in Aragon, 172
GENIUS, ascetic, 117
GEORGE II of England, 244
GERMANY, at the time of Louis XIV, 239-240;
love in, in the eighteenth century, 240-244;
aping of Louis XIV, 241
GERSON, his catalogue of ravishment, 133
GLYCERA, 57, 58
GORGO, lover of Sappho, 49
GOSPELS, the, 113;
the lost gospels, 113
GRANADA, palaces of, 165
GREECE, worship of Ishtar in, 6;
a gay nation, 28;
and Judæa, contrasted, 28;
had many creeds, but one religion, 28;
amours of, a part of its worship of beauty, 29;
its gods real to it, 29-30;
women in, in Sappho's time, 41-42;
beautiful women deified in, 58;
sale of beauty in, 59;
its decadence, 64
GREEK poetry, its splendors, 61
GREEKS, the, their appreciation of this world's gifts, 57
GRÉGOIRE DE TOURS, 119, 129
GREGOROVIUS, his description of Rome, 200-201
GUYON, Mme., and Quietism, 237-239
GWYNNE, NELL, 224
HADRIAN, 108
HÆMATOMANIA, 194
HALLAM, his opinion of knight-errantry, 161-162
HARLOTS, in Rome, 80-81
HECATE, 28
HELEN of Troy, her place in poetry, 34-35;
her influence on the Greek people, 35;
her degradation an evil influence, 35;
her idealization a source of inspiration, 35-36;
as viewed by Apollonius of Tyana, 36;
and Menelaus, 36-37;
and Paris, 37;
as a man's property, 37
HENRY IV, of France, 218;
and Gabrielle d'Estrées, 219-220
HEPHÆSTOS, 28
HERODOTUS, on Ishtar, 5, 6
HESIOD, his idea of Aphrodite, 31;
Eve suggested by his Pandora, 40
HETAIRA, the, 55
HETAIRÆ, the girls of the, 56-57
HÉLOÏSE and Abelard, story of, 136-137
HEPTAMÉRON, the, 209-210
HERMAS, 118
HERMITS, the outcome of Christianity, 116
HOME, the outcome of a better treatment of woman, 2
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