Curiosity

slavery: in ancient Rome, i58; Aristotle's view of, i60; as institution, 59; justification for, 186 Socrates, 14, 36, 54, 57, 58—59; on justice and equality, 185—86, 199; on names, 131—32; reasoning of, 60—63 Sophists, 53—62

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 187 South Africa, apartheid in, 321—23 Spinoza, Baruch, 95 Statius, 90—9i, i3i, 242—43 Stein, Gertrude, i Steiner, George, 63 Stendhal, 220 Stephenson, Craig, i3i Stevenson, Robert Louis, 40 Stone, I. F., 58

stories: importance of, 9, 37—38, 4i—42;

truth inherent in, 9, 3i2 Stroessner, Alfredo, 295 suicides, 128—29, 154; in the Commedia, i5i, i52 Sutherland, Donald, i Suzuki, David, 346n20 Swenson, May, 276

Talmud, 88, 98—103, 104, 118; Babylonian, i00—i0i

Talmudic tradition, 7, 4i, 68, 88—89, 277;

and death, 281—82 Tasso, Torquato, 34—35 tattoos, as used in concentration camps, 295—96

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 34, 4i Tertullian, 40 Tetragrammaton, 89 Thatcher, Margaret, 32i Theocritus, i48 Theodore, Saint, i04 Thomas Aquinas, Saint, 2i—24, ii9, i7i, 2i3, 24i—42, 324—25; Aristotle as

Thomas Aquinas, Saint (continued) influence on, 22-23; Summa Theologica, 22, 85-86 thought processes, mapping of, I09-I0 Thrasymachus, on injustice, I85, I86 Tibbets, Paul, 232 Timothy, first book of, 240 Toland, John, 76

Torah, as word of God, 88-89, 93-97,

I04. See also Talmud Toscanella, Orazio, 42-44 Tradescant, John (father and son), 263-64

translation: concept of, 65; writing as,

66, 70-7I

Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, 249 Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare), 33,

239

Trojan Horse, 29

Trojan War, 35, 305. See also Homer: Iliad truth: in the Commedia, 315-17, 319-20; Hume's perspective on, 32I; poetic lie as, 315-27; stories as, 312 Truth and Reconciliation Commission

(South Africa), 322 Tsevetaeva, Marina, 84 Turannius, Sextus, 277-78 Tuscany, political factions in, I6-I7, 223-24 typography, 80, 8I

Ugolino, Count, 279 Ulysses: as character in the Commedia, 33-34, 36, 40-4I, 44-46, 297-99, 302,

304-5; curiosity of, 44-47; and the gift of language, 35; literary incarna­tions of, 34-35, 41; sins committed by, 35—3⁶

unconscious, Jung's concept of, I36 United Nations Environmental Pro­gramme (UNEP), I60 universe, models of, I73-77. See also center of the universe, as perceived by various cultures Upanishads, I2I usury, sin of, 243-45, 247

Valla, Lorenzo, 224-25 Valmiki, III

Varro, Marcus Terentius, I58, I87 Vedas, I2I, I22

Vellutello, Alessandro, I74, I76 Veltwyck, Gerard, 99 Venice: imaginative and historical roots of, I04-5; Jewish books published in, 98-I0I; Jewish community in, 96, 97, I00-I0I

Victorinus, 285, 287 Videla, Jorge Rafael, 220 Villani, Giovanni, 239 violence, to nature, I54-56 Virgil: Aeneid, I4, I9, 28-29, 33, 83, I53, I79, 304; as Dante's guide in the Commedia, 19, 27-29, 36, 44, 68-70,

II3, II6, I30, I45, I52-53, I70-7I, I80, 2I6-I7, 222-23, 230, 257-58, 300,

308-9, 313-14, 316; Georgics, 157, 162; as model for Jose Hernandez, 148; and the natural world, I57-58 Vita nova (Dante), 19, 20 Viviano, Vincenzo, I76 Volkov, Solomon, 84 Voragine, Jacop de, Golden Legend, 20

Walcott, Derek, I65

war: death in, 289-90; as game of chess,

226-27; moral justification for, 232-33 Webb, Jeremy, 290 Weil, Simone, 50 Weissmuller, Johnny, I20 Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass, 257

Wilde, Oscar, 143-44; A House ofPome- granates, 252; The Importance ofBeing Earnest, 38; "The Young King,"

²5²—53 Williams, Charles, 159 wolves, 202. See also she-wolf, sins of women: in ancient Greece, 187-88; as commodities, 188-89; in Dante's world, 189-92; during the French Revolution, 193-99; rights of, 195-99; "subservient" function of, 38; tradi­tional role of, 187-89. See also gender identity Wood of Suicides, 151, 152 woods. See forests; nature Woolf, Virginia, 187, 201 words: and meaning, 123-24; as repre­sentation of thoughts, 66. See also language; translation; writing workers, as represented in art and litera­ture, 249-53

writing: aesthetics and utility of, 73; invention of, 71-73; as translation of the visual, 66, 70-71. See also language

Wunderkammer, 265

Xenophon, 57, 58, 59

Ya'akov ben Asher, 98 Yeats, William Butler, 134-35 Yi Jing. See I-Tsing Yitzhak, Rabbi Levi, 93 Yitzhaki, Rabbi Shlomo. See Rashi

Zend-Avesta, 281 Zeno's paradox, 93 Zephyr, the West Wind, 47 Zoroastrianism, and death, 281