SPARTA, condition of women in, 43-44; and Athens, rivalry between, 60-61 ST. AUGUSTINE, his view of Rome, 82; on marriage, 114 ST. BASILIUS, his praise of Homer, 38 STOICISM, in Rome, 108 STRABO, on Ishtar, 5, 6; his view of Sappho, 47, 49 ST. SEBASTIAN, on marriage, 114 SUETONIUS, his character of Caligula, 102; his Prince and Beast, 107 SWINBURNE, compared with Sappho, 47; his "Ode to Aphrodite," 50 SYLLA, his moral destruction of Rome, 83-84 TACITUS, on women, 81 TANIT, 5 TASSO, 210; his love for Leonora d'Este, 210-211 TENDERNESS-on-Sympathy, in Germany, 241 TENNYSON, his opinion of Dante, 181 TERTULLIAN, 103 THAIS, monument to, 58 THEBES, 63; its fall, 61 THEMISTOCLES, son of, 61-62 THEOLOGY, its base influence on love, 8 THERESA, St., story of, 132-133 TIBERIUS, his laws on women, 81 TOURNAMENTS, 144-145 TRISTRAM and Isaud, 144 TROUBADOURS, the, 172-174; their religion, 175; opposed by the Papacy, 176 VEDAS, the, on love, 7, 8; the poetry of, deformed by Brahmanism, 9 VENICE, its evil influence on love, 207 VENTADOUR, BERNARD DE, 173 VENUS, worship of, 6; name of Hebrew origin, 7; her indifference to mortal aspirations, 33-34 VERONESE, 132 VERSAILLES, 232, 235 VESPASIAN, 108 VIRGIN, the, aspirations to, 133; the _Regina angelorum_, 133; reflected in art, 134 VIRGINIA, 82 VITTORIA COLONNA, 208; her character, 211 VOLTAIRE, his opinion of the _Divina Commedia_, 181 WALTERS, LUCY, 224 WESTPHALIA, Peace of, 240 WIDOWS, under code of chivalry, 161 WIVES, treatment of, in Sappho's time, 53-54