Note 3 — Chapter I · THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY

I do not forget Ulysses and Penelope, Hector and Andromache, or Ovid’s Heroïdes; but the love of husband and wife is another matter altogether. The only instance in classical literature that I can recall of what may be termed the modern view of the subject is that of Hæmon and Antigone. See, on this subject, and in connection with these paragraphs generally, Symonds, Introduction to the Study of Dante, ch. viii.