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Odyssey
(Homer)

Oedipus

Oedipus at Colonus
(Sophocles)

Old Testament

Oliver Twist
(Dickens)

The Omega Man

On Christian Doctrine
(Augustine)

On the Life of Moses
(Philo Judaeus)

On the Nature of Things
(Lucretius)

On the Waterfront

Orange County Register

Oration on the Dignity of Man
(Pico della Mirandola)

Orczy, Baroness Emmuska

Orestes

Origin of the Species
(Darwin)

Orwell, George

Otto the Great

Ouranus

“The Oven-Bird” (Frost)

Ovid

Paedogogus
(Clement of Alexandria)

paganism; God of Abraham and; love and; Middle Ages and; nature and; Renaissance and; salvation and; State and

Paine, Thomas

Paracelsis

Paradise Lost
(Milton)

Paradiso
(Dante)

Pascal, Blaise

Pasteur, Louis

paterfamilias

patriarchy; ancient Greece and; Rome and

patriotism. ancient Greece and; Christianity and; Enlightenment and; Rome and

Paul, Saint

Paul III, Pope

peace. of God; Islam and

Peace of Augsburg (1555)

Pearl

pederasty

Pelagianism

Penn, William

Pensées
(Pascal)

perfection of man

Pericles

Perkins, Frances

Persians

Persian War

The Persian Wars
(Herodotus)

pesticides

Peter, Saint

Petrarch

Petronius

Phaedra

Phaedrus
(Plato)

Philip of Macedon

Philoctetes

Philo Judaeus

philosophy. ancient Greece and; birth of; faith and; God, understanding of and; modern; natural; Renaissance and

Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni

Pieper, Joseph

Pietà
(Michelangelo)

piety. ancient Greece and; Catholic Church and; natural law and; Rome and

Pilgrim Fathers; Enlightenment and

Pill.
See
birth control

Pisistratus

Pius II, Pope

Pius III, Pope

Pius XI, Pope

Pius XII, Pope

The Pivot of Civilization
(Sanger)

Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood v. Casey

Plato; Academy of; democracy and; family and; good and; justice and; love and; materialism and; mathematics and

Pliny the Younger

Plumb, J. H.

Plutarch

poetry.
See
literature

polis

political correctness. destruction of; patriotism and; twentieth century and; Western civilization and

political science

Pol Pot

Polybius

Polynices

pornography

“Porphyria’s Lover” (Browning)

Porsena

Portia

Poteat, Hubert

The Power and the Glory
(Greene)

The Prelude
(Wordsworth)

Priam, King of Troy

The Prince
(Machiavelli)

printing press

progress; Enlightenment and; nineteenth century and; science of; twentieth century and

Prohibition

Prometheus

Prometheus Unbound
(Shelley)

Protagoras

Protestant Reformation

Ptolemy

public education. democracy and; diversity and; effeminacy and; God and; Middle Ages and

Punic Wars

Puritan revolt of 1642

Puritans

Pythagoras

Quakers

The Quest for the Holy Grail

Quintus Fabius Maximus

Quod apostolici muneris
(Leo XIII)

racialism

racism

Raleigh, Walter

Ramses II, Pharaoh

Raphael

Rasselas
(Johnson)

reason; Aristotle and; Enlightenment and; eternal law and; faith and; feelings and; limits of; Middle Ages and; passions and

The Reason of Government
(Milton)

Reflections on the Revolution in France
(Burke)

Reign of Terror

relativism

religion. ancient Greece and; Enlightenment and; freedom of; individualism and; mystery; Renaissance and; Rome and; science and; twentieth century and.
See also
Christianity

Religion and the Rise of Western Culture
(Dawson)

Rembrandt

Renaissance. art and; authority, collapse of and; Christianity and; community and; Enlightenment and; humanism and; individualism and; man, fall of and; man, glory of and; Middle Ages and; misrepresentations of; modernity and; myths about; nominalism and; paganism, resurgent and; philosophy and; religion and; science and; secularism and; witches and

Republic
(Plato)

Rerum Novarum
(Leo XIII)

Revolutionary War

Rhea

Ricci, Matteo

Richard III
(Shakespeare)

Richard of Saint Victor

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(Coleridge)

The Ring and the Book
(Browning)

Robespierre

Robinson, John

Rockwell, Norman

Romanticism

Romanticism, Romantics. Browning, Robert and; cult of the child and; Dickens, Charles and; Dostoyevsky, Fyodor ad; Dostoyevsky, Fyodor and; Leo XIII, Pope and; man, worship of and; nature, worship of by; women and.
See also
nineteenth century

Rome. as American model; anti-democratic features of; art and; ascetism and; Christianity and; citizenship in; civic responsibility and; conservatism of; democracy and; fall of; family and; homosexuality and; love and; manual labor and; patriarchy and; patriotism and; peace through strength and; piety and; religion and; Senate of; slavery and; State and; taxation and; tradition and; women and

Romulus Augustulus

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Rugby Chapel
(Arnold)

Ruskin, John

Russell, Bertrand

Russia

Sacred and Profane Love
(Titian)

Saint Teresa in Ecstasy
(Bernini)

Sallust

salvation; Enlightenment and; faith and; God and; grace and; Jesus and; Middle Ages and; paganism and; time and; by works

Sanger, Margaret

Satyricon
(Petronius)

Savonarola, Girolamo

The Scarlet Letter
(Hawthorne)

The Scarlet Pimpernel
(Orczy)

School of Athens
(Raphael)

Schumacher, E. F.

science. ancient Greece and; Enlightenment and; eugenic; God and; Middle Ages and; natural; nineteenth century and; Old Testament God and; of progress; religion and; Renaissance and

scientism

Scipio

Scopes “monkey trial”

Scott, Sir Walter

Scotus, John

Second Treatise of Government
(Locke)

Second Vatican Council

secularism. Founding Fathers and; Renaissance and

Seneca

sentimentalism

Septuagint

Sexual Revolution