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INDEX
Achilles and Patroclus, 45, 68 et seq., 74, 85
Æschylus, on Achilles, 72, 73
African Customs, 4, 5, 6, 14
Agathon, epigram to, by Plato, 79
Agesilaus and Lysander, 17
Albania, Customs, 20, 21
Alexander the Great and Hephæstion, 188
Amis and Amile, story of, 106
Anacreon, epigram, 77;
to Bathyllus, 77
Anne, Princess, and Lady Churchill, 146
Anselm’s letters to brother Monks, 104;
to Lanfranc, 104;
to Gondulph, 105
Apollo and Hyacinth, 88
Arabia, customs, 12, 109, 119
Archidamus and Cleonymus, 17
Aristophanes, speech of, 51 et seq.
Aristotle quoted, 185
Aster, epigrams to, by Plato, 78
Athenæus quoted, 25, 28, 74, 147
Augustine, Saint, his friend, 99 et seq.
Bacon, Francis, quoted, 137
Bagdad Dervish, story of, 116;
another story, 177
Balonda, ceremonies among, 4
Banyai, customs among the, 14
Barnfield, Richard, “The Affectionate Shepheard,” 133;
Sonnets, 134 et seq.
Baylis, J. W., quoted, 36, 90
Beaconsfield, Lord, on boy-friendships, 168
Beaumont and Fletcher, 191 et seq.
Bengali coolies, 7
Benecke, E. F. M., quoted, 68, 97
Bernard, Saint, 103
Bion quoted, 86
Blood, mutual tasting of, 5
Browne, Sir Thomas, “Religio Medici” quoted, 144
Browning, Robert, poem by, 174
Bruno, Giordano, quoted, 130
Buckingham, J. S., Travels in Assyria, &c., 115 et seq.
Butler, Lady E., and Miss Ponsonby, 161, 162
Byron, letter to Miss Pigot, 160;
friendship with Eddleston, 161;
paraphrase of story of Nisus and Euryalus, 163;
comments by T. Moore, 164;
story of Calmar and Orla, 217
Callias and Autolycus, 59
Calmar and Orla, 217
Carlyle, T., on Fritz of Prussia and von Katte, 205
Catullus, 89;
to Quintius, 92;
to Juventius, 92;
to Licinius, 93
Chæronæa, battle of, 22, 23, 68
Chariton and Melanippus, 15;
story of, 29
Chivalry, customs of, in Arabia and Africa, 11, 12, 14
Chivalry, mediæval, compared with Greek friendship, 15, 45, 47
Christian influences, 97 et seq.
Christian and Greek Ideals compared, 98
Cleomachus, story of, 27
Comrade-attachment, institution in the early world, 1 et seq., 41, 46, 177, &c.;
essential part of Greek civilisation, 41, 42 et seq., 208, 209;
romance of, 42, 46, 47, 52, 53, 56-60, 68 et seq.;
heroic quality, 11, 12, 13, 16, 21-25, 28, 31-37, 50, 51, &c.;
Educational value, 16-21, 46, 49, 74, 210, 211;
relation to chivalry, 11-16, 45, 47, 97;
relation to Politics, 42, 46, 49, 50, 99, 147, 211, 212;
relation to Philosophy, 30, 47-63;
relation to the Divine Love, 48, 54-59, 63, 130, 132, 133, 145
Cratinus and Aristodemus, 15
Crete, customs, 17
Damon and Pythias, 8;
story of, 36
Dante quoted, 69
David and Jonathan, 6, 7, 15, 108
Democratic Vistas quoted, 178
Dickinson, G. L., quoted, 45, 75
Diocles, tomb honoured by lovers, 20, 82
Diocles and Philolaus, 15, 19
Diomedes and Sthenelus, 45
Diotima the prophetess, 53, 129
Don Karlos and the Marquis of Posa, 199 et seq.
Dorian customs, 16 et seq.
Eastern countries and poets, 109
Eighteenth Century, influence of, 147
Emerson, R. W., essay on friendship, 175
Epaminondas, 28, 29;
and Pelopidas, 185
Epigrams, Greek Anthology, 80;
of Plato, 78, 79
Epitaph, Greek Anthology, 80
Exchange of gifts, 5, 6, 7, 18, 36;
of names, 5, 6;
of flowers, 7
Fitzgerald, Edward, friendship for Tennyson, Thackeray and others, 222;
devotion to Fletcher, or ‘Posh,’ the sailor, 223, 224
Fletcher, John, lament for Francis Beaumont, 194
Flower Friends, 7
Fraunce, Abraham, translation of Virgil, 91
Frederick the Great, his friendship with von Katte, 204 et seq.;
poems by, 207
Frey, Ludwig, quoted, 45, 149
Gamameda or Ganymede, 220
Ganymede, 57, 82
Germans, primitive, 11, 13
Germany, modern, 147 et seq.
Goethe, on Winckelmann and Greek friendships, 149;
poem by, 150
Greek friendship compared with mediæval chivalry, 15, 45, 47
Hæckel, Ernst, and his Rodiya boy in Ceylon, 219 et seq.
Hafiz quoted, 113, 190
Hallam, Arthur, and Tennyson, 169 et seq.
Harmodius and Aristogeiton, 15, 28;
story of, 32
Hazlitt, Wm., Life of Montaigne quoted, 124
Hephæstion, favorite of Alexander the Great, 188
Hercules and Ioläus, 23, 25, 44
Herder on Greek friendship, 208, 209
Hermaphrodites, 52
Homer’s Iliad, motive of, 68-72
Hyacinth, favorite of Apollo, 87;
story of, 88
Idomeneus and Meriones, 45
“In Memoriam,” Tennyson’s, reviled by the “Times,” 169;
quoted, 170 et seq.
Ioläus, 23, 25, 44
Jalal-ud-din Rumi, 109, 110, 111
Jealousy in friendship, 9
Kasendi, an African ceremony, 5
Khalifa at Khartoum, 12
Kitir, Joseph, verses by, 213
Lacedæmonians, customs among, 25
Ladies, the, of Llangollen, 161, 162
“Leaves of Grass” quoted, 179-181
Leigh Hunt on school-friendships, 166, 167
Lover answerable for his friend, 18;
disgraceful for a youth not to have a lover, ibid
Lovers invincible in battle, 11, 12, 13, 23, 24, 28
Lucian quoted, 35
Ludwig of Bavaria and R. Wagner, 153 et seq.;
letters to Wagner, 214 et seq.
Macaulay’s History of England quoted, 145, 146
Maid’s Tragedy quoted, 195
Manganjas, ceremonies among, 5
Mania, divine, 54
Marquesas Islands, 9
Martial’s epigrams quoted, 94
Maximus Tyrius quoted, 129
“May and Death,” poem by Browning, 174
Melantius and Amintor, 195
Meleager, verses by, 79
Melville, Herman, quoted, 8 et seq.
Michel Angelo, Sonnets, 129;
quoted, 131 et seq.
Military Comradeship, 11 et seq.
Monastic life, friendship in, 97, 103 et seq.
Montaigne and Stephen de la Boëtie, 123 et seq.;
on marriage, 125
Montalembert quoted, 103 et seq.
Moore, T., on Byron’s friendships, 164
Moschus, lament for Bion, 86
Mulamirin, or bodyguard of Khalifa, 13
Müller, History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, 16 et seq.
Niobe, the sons of, 26, 27
Orestes and Pylades, 15, 44;
story of, 35
Parmenides and Zeno, 30
Patroclus and Achilles, 45, 68, 74, 85
Penn, William, quoted, 145
Persia, customs, 109, 119
Persian Poetry, 110 et seq., 189, 190
Phædo, story of, 31
Phædrus of Plato, 47, 49, 55
Pheidias and Pantarkes, 30
Philip of Macedon and the Theban Band, 23
Pindar to Theoxenos, 78;
see also 153
Platen, Count August von, 151;
sonnets to his friend Karl Theodor German, 151, 152;
sonnet on death of Pindar, 153
Plato quoted, 16, 48 et seq., 72, 73;
epigrams, 78
Plutarch quoted, 22, 26, 27, 61 et seq.;
referred to, 123
Polemon and Krates, 187
Polynesian Apollo, 9
Polynesian customs, 8 et seq.
‘Posh’ and Edward Fitzgerald, 223, 224
Potter, Archbishop, quoted, 147
Raffalovich quoted, 151
Reminiscence, true love a, 55-59
Renaissance, influence of, 99, 123
Rückert, verses to his friend, Joseph Kopp, 21
Saadi quoted, 113, 189, 190
Sacred Band, see Theban Band
Sacredness of friendship in the early world, 10, 37, 45
Sappho, 75;
to Lesbia, 76
Schiller quoted, 198 et seq.
School-friendships, 165 et seq.
Sentiment of Comradeship, influenced by Christianity, 97 et seq.;
by the Renaissance, 99, 123;
its place in the monastic life, 97, 103 et seq.;
in modern Democracy, 178, 211
Shakespeare, 128, 138, 152;
sonnets quoted, 139 et seq.;
Merchant of Venice, 142;
Henry V., 143
Shelley, Adonais, 86;
essay on friendship, 165
Sidney, Philip, friendship with Fulke Greville, 127;
with Hubert Languet, 127, 128
Sininyane and Moshoshoma, 5, 6
Socrates, his views, 47;
quoted, 53 et seq., 58, 59, 75
Socrates and Phædo, 31
Sophocles, his tragedy of Niobe, 74
Sparta, customs, 16
Suleyman the Magnificent and Ibrahim, 114
Symonds, J. A., quoted, 15, 20, 31, 47, 68, 79
Symposium of Plato, 48 et seq.;
speech of Phædrus, 49;
of Pausanias, 51;
of Aristophanes, 52;
of Socrates, 53, 54;
also 72
Symposium of Xenophon, 59-61
Tacitus, Germania, 11
Tahiti, customs in, 8
Tennyson, Alfred, and his friend Hallam, 169;
“In Memoriam” quoted, 170 et seq.
Theban Band, account of, 21 et seq.;
also 28, 68, 211
Theocritus, Idyll xii., 80 et seq.;
Idyll xxix., 83
Theognis and Kurnus, 74, 75
Theseus and Pirithöus, 15, 44, 85
Thirlwall, Bishop, quoted, 44
Thoreau, H. D., quoted, 175-6
Thucydides quoted, 32
Ulrichs, K. H., 157;
verses quoted, 159
Valerius Maximus quoted, 37
Vauvenargues and De Seytres, 196, 197
Virgil, 2nd Eclogue, 90;
imitated, 133
Vision, the divine, 55, 56, 58
Von Katte, his execution, 205
Von Kupffer, Anthology quoted, 189, 190, 210, 211
Wagner, Richard, friendship with Ludwig II., 153;
letters, 154, 155;
on Greek comradeship, 156
Whitman, Walt, his “love of comrades,” 177;
Democratic Vistas quoted, 178;
Leaves of Grass quoted, 179-181
William of Orange and Bentinck, 145
Winckelmann, 148;
his letters, 148;
Goethe on, 149
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