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exhibit the traits which we associate with the 

 Norman crusaders : Richard Cceur - de - Lion 

 galloping his horse along the Saracen lines at 

 Jaffa might, indeed, have been a reincarnation 

 of Ajax from the fields of Troy. In the time of 

 Themistocles very different were the ideals of 

 manly conduct. The references to women in 

 both Iliad and Odyssey carry us far from the 

 ideas of a Mediterranean people. There is 

 nothing of the Levant in Hector's farewell to 

 Andromache, in the independence of Penelope, 

 in the punctilious reserve with which Ulysses 1 

 meets the naivetes of Nausicaa. We may 

 realize the change which came over Greek thought 

 if we compare a passage in the Odyssey with a 

 sentence from the funeral speech of Pericles. 

 According to the ideals of Ulysses a man of 

 many successes with women- 

 Naught beneath the sky 



More sweet, more worthy is than firm consent 

 Of man and wife in household government : 

 It joys their wishers- well, their enemies wounds, 

 But to themselves the special good redounds. 



Pericles held, on the contrary, that it was the high- 

 est glory of woman to be unknown outside her 

 house-door, for either good or evil. In the days 

 when Athens reached the summit of her glory, 

 woman had begun to fall into Oriental degradation. 

 The wife was man's slave, the courtesan was his 

 companion. Thence onward we may watch the 

 rapid orientalization of the Greeks until, during 

 the Byzantine empire, their ideas, their passions, 

 their government became those of an Asiatic 

 country. Constantinople would in all probability 

 have been captured by Islam four centuries earlier 



1 Is not Ulysses represented in Odyssey vi. 23-2 as a yellow- 

 haired man? 



