Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and ModernSaltus, Edgar
Philosophy
Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern
Saltus, Edgar
Love
WOMAN, early treatment of, 1, 2;
family life, the outcome of better treatment of, 2;
common property once, 2;
man's early treatment of, 2;
not honored in Judæa, 10;
incarnated sin to the Jews, 10;
as viewed by Ecclesiasticus, 10;
as viewed by Moses, 10, 11;
as viewed by Solomon, 11;
worshipped in the Renaissance, 15;
a man's chattel, 37;
as viewed by Homer, 39-40;
beginning of her emancipation, 40;
what she represented in Greece, 58;
her development through Aspasia, 62;
how viewed by the _Iliad_, 62-63;
how viewed by the _Odyssey_, 62-63;
treatment of, by Rome, 77-78;
her legal and actual position in Rome, 78;
her supremacy in Rome, 78-79;
her position stated by Cato, 79;
position of, in Rome compared with her position in Greece, 79;
hampered by Roman laws, 80-81;
Christ's opinion of, 113;
little thought of by St. Paul, 114;
her treatment of Christ, 115;
condition of, in dark ages, 127;
how regarded by the second council of Macon, 127;
St. Chrysostom on, 128;
retreat to cloister, 129;
legend of a, 131-132;
her enfranchisement in the Middle Ages, 135-136;
her condition in the Crusade times, 141;
the arbiter of knightly honor, 143-144;
badly influenced by Feudalism, 146;
Courts of Love for, 155-157;
Code of Love for, 153-155;
marriage of, in days of chivalry, 157;
her position in days of chivalry, 158;
knightly homage for, 158-159;
widows under code of chivalry, 161;
position of, in Italy, 161;
beloved by Muhammad, 168;
the Koran on, 168-169;
Moorish treatment of, 169-170;
seclusion under Islamism, 169-170;
her position in Italy in Bembo's time, 204-205
WOMEN, lost in the deluge, 10;
in Greece in Sappho's time, 41-42;
of Lesbos, 44-45;
Sappho's influence on, 55;
deification of, in Greece, 58;
Tacitus on, 81;
laws of Tiberius on, 81;
married, reverenced in Rome, 81-82;
Cæsar's treatment of, 85;
as brides of Christ, 133;
in Germany in eighteenth century, 242;
morals of, in Germany, 242;
in the eighteenth century, 246
XANTIPPE, 117
ZEND AVESTA, the decalogue of the, 150
Footnotes:
[1] Herodotus, I., 199.
[2] Strabo, XVI., xi., 532. Baruch, VI. Justinus, XVIII. St. Augustin:
Civit. Dei, IV., 10. Eusebius: Vita Constantini, III., 53-56. _Cf._
Juvenal, Satir. 9: Nam quo non prostat femina templo?
[3] Renan: Le Cantique des Cantiques.
[4] Paraleipomena, XIII.
[5] Philostratus: Apollonius Tyanensis, IV., 16.
[6] Ethica S. Basilii.
[7] Bérard: Les Phéniciens et l'Odyssée.
[8] Opera et Dies, 70.
[9] Xenophon: de Republica Lacedæmoniorum.
[10] Rossetti, D. G.
[11] Epistolæ Heroïdum, XV.
[12] Athenæus, XIII. Musonius: de Luxu. Becker: Charikles.
[13] Saturnalia, III., 9.
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