MACÆNAS, lackey of Augustus, 102 MAHABHÂRATA, the, The Vedic history of love, 7, 8 MAN, early, his attitude toward Nature, 2, 3; pleasure not known to him, 2 MANU, laws of, on marriage, 8 MARGOT, wife of Henry IV of France, 218-219 MARGUERITE of France, 208; 208-210; the Heptaméron of, 209-210 MARIUS, 120 MARRIAGE, laws of Manu on, 8; position of women in Greece in, 42; in Sparta, 44; in Rome, 79-80; under the Cæsars, 103; Lex Pappea Poppoea, 103; as viewed by the Early Christian Church, 114; St. Sebastian on, 114; St. Augustine on, 114; made incumbent by Hebrew law, 116; St. Paul on the dignity of, 119-120; under the feudal system, 146-147; how restricted by the later Church, 147-148; in days of chivalry, 157 MARY MAGDALEN, 115 MATRIMONY, as interpreted by later Platonism, 205 MEDLIÆVALISM, the prelude to the Renaissance, 198 MEDICI, CATHERINE DE, 217 MENANDER, 57 MENELAUS, and Helen of Troy, 36-37 MICHAEL ANGELO, 202; his love for Vittoria Colonna, 211-212 MIGNET, 213 MILETUS, convents of, 58 MINSTRELS, the, 164 MITHRA, 104 MODESTY, in the eighteenth century, 246 MOLIÈRE, his ridicule of the _Précieuses_, 227 MOLINOS, 135; his Quietism, 237 MOLOCH, 10, 11 MONASTERIES, 128-129 MONTESPAN, Marquise de, 234-235 MONTESQUIEU, his definition of gallantry, 213 MOORS, in Spain, 163-167; their learning and poetry, 166; originated chivalry, 167-168; their power in Europe, 168; their treatment of women, 169-170 MORBIHAN, the paintings in, 196 MOSES, his view of woman, 10, 11 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 Chaldæan 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 François I, 215 PATRIARCH, the, his position in Judæa, 10 PAUL III, 202 PAUL, St., his humiliation of woman, 114; on the dignity of marriage, 119-120; his view of Christianity, 134-135