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The Abolition of Man
(Lewis)
 
abortion
 
Abraham; God of; Isaac, sacrifice of and
 
Academici
(Cicero)
 
Achilles
 
Adamists
 
Adams, Henry
 
Adams, John
 
Adams, John Quincy
 
Adams, Samuel
 
Aeneas
 
Aeneid
(Virgil)
 
Aeschylus
 
Agamemnon
 
agnosticism
 
Alaric
 
Albert the Great, Saint
 
Alcibiades
 
Alcuin
 
Alexander the Great
 
Alexander VI, Pope
 
Alien and Sedition Acts
 
alienation
 
Ambrose, Saint
 
American Revolution
 
Ames, Fisher
 
Amoretti
(Spenser)
 
Anaximander
 
Anaximenes
 
Anchises
 
ancient Greece. as American model; art in; democracy and; drama and; fall of; family and; fertility cults and; freedom and; government and; homosexuality in; love and; materialism and; medicine and; moral relativism and; natural law and; patriarchy and; patriotism and; philosophy and; piety and;
polis
and; religion and; science and; slavery and; sports and; State and; superior culture of; tradition and; women and
 
Antigone
(Sophocles)
 
Antoninus Pius
 
Anubis
 
Apollo
 
Apollonius of Perga
 
Apology for Poetry
(Sidney)
 
Appias Claudius
 
Aquinas, Thomas, Saint
 
Arcadia
(Sidney)
 
Archesilaus
 
Archimedes
 
An Argument Against the Abolishing of Christianity
(Swift)
 
Arianism
 
Aristarchus
 
Aristippus
 
Aristophanes
 
Aristotle; causes and; family and; good and; Middle Ages and; morality and; reason and
 
Arnold, Matthew
 
art. ancient Greece and; Israel and; man, perfection of and; Middle Ages and; modern; nineteenth century and; Renaissance and,
 
art. ancient Greece and, (continued); Rome and; twentieth century and
 
ascetism
 
atheism
 
Athena
 
Athens, Greece.
See
ancient Greece
 
Athletics in the Ancient World
(Gardiner)
 
Atwood, Margaret
 
Augustine, Saint
 
Augustus
 
Autobiography
(Mill)
 
Averroes
 
Avicenna
 
Ayer, A. J.
 
B
 
Babylonians
 
Bacon, Francis
 
Barber, Francis
 
Barnaby Rudge
(Dickens)
 
Bartholomew, Saint
 
Bede, Venerable
 
Beethoven, Ludwig von
 
Belloc, Hilaire
 
Benedict, Saint
 
Beowulf
 
Berg, Alban
 
Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint
 
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo
 
Beroul
 
Berry, Duc de
 
Berry, Wendell
 
Beyond Good and Evil
(Nietzsche)
 
Bible
 
Bill of Rights
 
birth control
 
Bishop Blougram’s Apology
(Browning)
 
Blake, William
 
Bleak House
(Dickens)
 
Boccaccio
 
Boethius
 
Bonaventure, Saint
 
Boniface
 
The Book of the Courtier
(Castiglione)
 
Boswell, James
 
Botticelli
 
Bracciolini, Poggio
 
Bradbury, Ray
 
Bradford, William
 
Brando, Marlon
 
Brave New World
(Huxley)
 
Brewster, William
 
Brideshead Revisited
(Waugh)
 
The Brothers Karamazov
(Dostoyevsky)
 
Browning, Robert
 
Brownson, Orestes
 
Brutus
 
Bryan, William Jennings
 
Buddhism
 
Burke, Edmund
 
Byron, Lord
 
C
 
Cabot, John
 
Caedmon
 
Calhoun, John C.
 
Calvin, John
 
Camillus
 
Camoens, Luis Vaz de
 
Candide
(Voltaire)
 
The Canterbury Tales
(Chaucer)
 
Canticle of Brother Sun
(Francis of Assisi)
 
Canzoniere
(Petrarch)
 
capitalism
 
Capra, Frank
 
Caravaggio
 
Carcopino, Jerome
 
Carson, Rachel
 
Casti Conubii
(Pius XI)
 
Castiglione, Baldassare
 
Catholic Church. Enlightenment and; Luther, Martin and; piety and; social teaching of; superstition and; twentieth century and
 
Cato
 
Cat’s Cradle
 
Celestial Mechanics
(Laplace)
 
charity
 
Charles I, King
 
Charles II, King
 
Charles V, Emperor
 
Chaucer, Geoffrey
 
Chesterton, G. K.
 
“Children? Not if you love the planet” (Steyn)
 
China
 
Chretien de Troyes
 
The Christian Doctrine
(Milton)
 
Christianity. charity and; civic responsibility and; culture, elevation of by; drama and; equality and; heresies, correction of and; love and; manual labor and; medieval; mercy and; nature and; pagan cruelties and; pagan philosophy and; patriotism and; Renaissance and, Rome and; slavery and; State and; tolerance and; West, saving of and; women and.
See also
religion
 
A Christmas Carol
(Dickens)
 
Church.
See
Christianity
 
Cicero
 
Cincinnatus
 
City of God
(Augustine)
 
civic responsibility
 
Civil War, U. S.
 
Clagett, Marshall
 
Clement of Alexandria
 
Cleon
 
“Cleon” (Browning)
 
Cleopatra
 
Clinton, Hillary Rodham
 
Clinton, William J.
 
Cloelia
 
The Clouds
(Aristophanes)
 
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
 
Colet, John
 
Columbus, Christopher
 
communism
 
The Communist Manifesto
(Marx and Engels)
 
Confessions
(Augustine)
 
Confucianism
 
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
(Twain)
 
conservatism. Burke, Edmund and; of Founding Fathers; of Rome; twentieth-century
 
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
(Kirk)
 
The Consolation of Philosophy
(Boethius)
 
Constantine
 
Constitution, U. S.
 
Coolidge, Calvin
 
Cooper, James Fenimore
 
Copernicus
 
Cornelia
 
Council of Trent (1545-1563)
 
Cragg, Gerald
 
creation
 
Creation of Adam
(Michelangelo)
 
Creon
 
Crito
(Plato)
 
Croesus
 
Crombie, A. J.
 
Cronus
 
Crusades
 
Cultural Revolution
 
culture. ancient Greece; barbarian; Christianity and; equality of; global warming and; Middle Ages and
 
D
 
Daily Life in Ancient Rome
(Carcopino)
 
Daniel the Stylite, Saint
 
Dante
 
Darius
 
Darrow, Clarence
 
Darwin, Charles
 
David
(Donatello)
 
David
(Michelangelo)
 
Da Vinci, Leonardo
 
Dawkins, Richard
 
Dawson, Christopher
 
The Day the Earth Stood Still
 
DDT
 
Dead Christ
(Mantegna)
 
Decalogue
 
Declaration of Independence
 
Deism; Founding Fathers and
 
democracy. ancient Greece and; Enlightenment and; freedom and; modern; moral relativism and; public education and; radical; Rome and; tyranny and

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