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 ISLÂM, 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 JUDÆA, 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 LACEDÆMON, 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 VALLIÈRE, 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 LONGUEVILLE, Mme. de, 245-246 LORENZO, the Magnificent, 200 LOUIS XIV, of France, 232-234; his mistresses, 232-236; his kingdom, 236 LOUIS XV, of France, 247