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Index

Please note: the terms are indexed where they are first cited in the work; subsequent citations (in most cases) are not listed.  Spelling in some case is idiosyncratic to Spengler and German of 1918; this is especially true of Chinese names.

1813, p36 

1870, p35,

1914, p36

 

A

Aeschylus, p14; and choruses, p 28

aesthete, p43

agon, p35

ahistorical, p8

Alcibiades, p4

Alexander, p4

Alexandria, p33

Alexandrine romance-literature, p11

almanac-reckoning, p9

alter ego, p27

Amenemhet III, p13

amorphous, p36

analogy, p4; and “outward dissimilarity”, p39; and “historical form” p38

analysis situs, p42

analytical geometry, p7

Anthony, p4

Apollo, p27; cult, p28

Apollodoros, p35

Appian Way, p34

Appius Claudius, Censor p11

Aquinas, p20

Arcadians, p11

archetypes, p3

architrave, p44 

Aristarchus, p9

Aristophanes, p 30

Aristotle, p9; Aristotelian, p9

Asiatic-Greek cities, p9

Athens, p27

Attic demos, p39

Augustine, p19

Augustus, reign of p10

Axum empire, p16

 

Babylonians, p9

Bach, John Sebastian, p27 

Bachofen, p28

Bacon, p23

Barca, p35

Baroque, p33

Basel professors, p28

Baudelaire, p35

Bourbons, p39,  p4

Brahman Nirvana, p11

Brocken-spectres, p17

Bruges, p 33 

Brutus, p11

Brutus, M. p5

Brutus, Cult of, p5

Buddha, p12; Buddhism, p11

Byzantine circus, p30

 

C

Caesar, p8, p38; Caesarism, p27; Caesar’s wife, p24; Man of Democracy, p5

Cannae, battle of, p36

Capitalism, p5

Catiline, p27

Cato, p31; and stoicism of, p33

Causality, p8

Celts, p34 

Ceylon, p12

Chaeronea, battle of, p35 

Charlemagne, p38

Charles XII of Sweden, p4

cheque, p7

Chinese book printing, p7

chiselled archives, p12

chronological, p6

Chrysippus, stoicism of, p 33

Chuang-tsu, p45 

Cicero, p4

Cimmerians, p4

City states, p7

Civilization, p 31; and civilized, p29; civilization-man, p29, p37

Classical Age p5; Classical man, p9; ’Classical’ world, p 26

Classical coinage, p7

Cleon, p27

clepsydra, p15

Clericalism, p5

Colosseum, p44

Comte, p24

Confucius, p42

contrapuntal music, p7

Copernican system of history, p18

cosmopolitanism, p 33

counterpoise, p12

Crassus, p34

credit economics, p7

Crete, old p33 

Cromwellian, p42

Crusades, p27 

Culture, p 31; and culture man, p29, p37

Cyaxares, p4

Cynics, p45

Cyrenaics, p45

Cyrus, p18

 

D

Daniel, book of, p18

Dante, p20; and his Vita Nuova, p14

Darwinism, p35; as Malthusian, p45 

Delphic oracle, p29

Descartes, p33

Destiny, p8

Differential Calculus, p7

Dionysus, p8; “Dionysian”, p24; Dionysian movement, p27; Dionysus religion, p33 

Dominicans, p20

Doric column, p9

Dschang Yi, p37 

dynamics, p15

Dynastic principles, p7

 

E

economic-megalopolitan, p29

Egyptians, p9; and Egyptian man, p12; and Egyptian Culture, p12; and Egyptian administrative system, p7

Elder Scipio, p35

Eleatics, p49

Emperor worship, p28

entelechy, p15

Epaminondas, p11

Epicureans, p45 

epistemology, p42

Euclid, p42; Euclidean geometry, p7

experimental psychology, p44

 

F

Faust, two souls of, p27

Feuerbach, p24

Flaminius, C, p36

Fleury, Cardinal, p4

Florence, p29

folk psychology, p48

Fourteenth century mystics, p20

Franciscans, p20

Frederick the Great, p4; and his Considerations, p4

friezes, p44

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G

Galileo, p7; and his Saggiatore, p7

Gauls, p34; and Cisalpine Gaul, p37

German free cities, p 33 

German wars, p38

Gnostic systems, p18; and Gnostic world conception, p20

Goethe, p9; “Living nature”, p25; Werther, p14; Wilhelm Meister, p25; Wahrheit und Dichtung, p25

Gothic, p19

Gracchi, p27

Graeculus histrio, p44

Grand Monarch, p42

Greco-Roman culture, p27

Greek man, p9

Grote, p29

groups, Theory of, p47

 

H

Habsbourg, House of, p4

Hadrian, p4

Hamlet, p14

harmonic, p35

Haroun al Rhaschid, p38 

Hebbel, p24; and his Judith, p45

Hegel, p19; Hegelian stamp, p19

Hellas, p14

Hellenistic period, p11; and literature, p11; and palaestra, p35

Henry the Fowler, p4

Herder, p19

Hipparchus, p9

Hobbes, p42

Hoh-tsung, p37

Homer, p27; Homeric Greece, p13

Huguenot wars, p 33 

Hungarians, p4

 

I  

Ibsen, p20, women-problem, p24; Stockholm address of 1887, p20, Epilogue, p45; Emperor and Galilean, p20; Nora, p24

ideological, p29

impeachment, p9

Imperial Fora, p44

Imperialism, p37; and Imperium Romanum, p36

Impressionism, p5

Indian Culture, p11; and Indian architecture, p27; and Indian man, p12

industry, p36

inimitable, p10

innate, p7

instrumental tone masses, p35

intelligentsia, p24

International Exhibition, p44

Ionic, p33

ipso facto, p40

Ipsus, battle of, p36

 

J

Jacobin Clubs, p5

jejune, p16

Joachim of Floris, p19

Juvenal, p 30

 

K

“Ka”, p12

Kant & formal rules of cognition, p7;Categories of the reason, p7; Critique of Pure Reason, p7; Intuition forms, p7

Karnak, p44 

Kleisthenes of Sikyon, p 33

Kosmos, p9

Ku-tsi, p14

Kwan-tsi, p42

 

L

Lao-tse, p37

League of Nations, p37

Leibniz, p42

Leipzig, battle of, p35

Lessing, p20

Licinius, land law of, p11

Lien-heng, p37

Lo-Yang, p17

Louis XIV, p42

Lucullus, p36

Luther, p24

Luxor, p44

Lycurgus, p11

lyric, p7

 

M

Macedonians, p4

Madame de Sevigne, p24

Maecenas, p34; his renowned park, p34

Magian, p18

“Mahavansa”, p12

Manet, p35

Marius, p27

Marx, as Hegelian, p45

materialistic, p6; materialist, p29

mathematical, p6; mathematical statics, p15

matter of fact school, p28

Maximus, p20

Megalopolitan, p35

memorandum, p42

Mencius, p45

Messenians, p11

metaphysically, p5; metaphysics, school, p44

Mexican gods, p27

Michelangelo, p34

Migrations of Western Central Europe, p22

Mithradic danger, p36 

Mo-ti, p45 

Mohammad, p39

Mommsen, p11

Mongol, p38

morphologically, p4; morphology of world history, p5

Mozart, p44

Mycenaean age, p13

Mysteries, p29

 

N

Napoleon, p4

Nature, p8; natural science, p6; naturalistic, p8; naturalism, p33

New Empire, p13

Newton, p21

Nibelungenlied, p27 

Nietzsche, p11; “Superman”, p24; Zarathustra, p24; “transvaluation of all values”, p24 

normative, p28

Nurnberg, p33

 

O

Octavius, p4

oligarchical, p5

organic, p7

Orion, p13

Otto III, p30

 

Paestum, temple of, p30

Palatine, p44 

Palladio, p30

panem et circenses, p34

Panza, Sancho, p31

paradoxical, p8

Paris, p27

Parmenides, p33

Parthians, p34

parvenu, p34

Pascal, p42

Pataliputra, p17

Pausanias, p14

pedant, p44

Pericles, p9; Periclean Age, p34 

periodicy, p4

Persian Wars, p10

Persian & Jewish religions, p18

Perzeval, p14

Petrarch, p4

Petronius, p30

phallus worship, p30

phenomena, p5; phenomenal world, p8

Phidias, p23

Philip the II, p4

philological, p28

Phrynes, p30

physiognomic, p49

physiological facts, p 28

physiologist, p43

Plato, p9, 

plebeian, p11

plein air, p35

Plutarch, p14; Plutarchian, p5

polarity, p4, p9

Polybius, p10

Polycletus, p27 

Pompeii, p30

Pompey, p36

Praetor, p44

pragmatic, p6

Prague, p33

pre-Hannibalian Roman history, p11

pre-Socratic philosophers, p14, p41

pre-Solonian Greece, p13

predicates, p9

Princeps, p44 

proscriptions, p4

provincials, p35

Prussian-German peoples, p36

Ptolemaic system of history, p18, p19

Punic War, First, p10; economic motives, p35; Second Punic War, p11

purviews, p22

Pyrrhus, p36 

Pythagoras, p39

 

Q

Quintus Curtius, p4

Quixote, Don, p31

 

R

Rameses II, p39

Ranke, p4

rectilinear, p16

Reformation, p33

Rembrandt, p23

Renaissance, p27 

Rhodes, Cecil, p4, p37; his success, p38 

Rococo, p40

Roman circus, p35

Roman consul, p9

Roman kings, p11

Roman Republic, end of the, p11

Roman road engineering, p7

romanticists, p28

Roseau, p33

Russian, p23

 

S

Salamanca, p 33

Samnites, p34

Sassanids, p16

Schliemann, p14

Schopenhauer, p7; and “will to life” p45 

series, p9

Servius Tullius, constitution of, p11

Segesta, temple of, p30

Seneca, stoicism of, p33

Shaw, p35

Sistine Chapel, p34

skepsis, p45; and classical Scepticism, p45

slave-holding: p36 

Socialism, p5, p36

Socrates, p14

Sophocles, p9

space, logic of, p7

space-perspective, p7

Sparta, constitutional history, p10

Stoic, p9; and Roman Empire, p36

Strindberg, p24

Strophe, p29

subtilized, p9

suffuses, p7

supererogation, p6

Syracuse, p42

Syrians, p34 

 

T

tableaux, p5

Tao, p14

Tarquins, p11

Taygetus, Mount p11

term, p9

Themistocles, p9

theory of functions, p15, of conic sections, p15

Thermopylae, p4

Thuthmosis, p14

time, logic of, p7

Tolstoy, p24

tour de force, p35

Trajan, p39

triumvir, p34

“Trojan War”, p27 

Tsin, p37 

 

U

universal symbolism, p46

 

V

Valmy, battle of, p25

Varro, p11

Vedic India, p13

Venus, p8

viz. p8

 

W

Wagner, p35; his Siegfried, p45; his Tristan; p45 

Wagram, p42

Wang Hu, p37 

water clocks, p15

Weimar, p29

Western classicism, p29

world as nature, p5

world-as-history, p5

world city, p27 

 

X

 

Y

Yang-chu, p45 

 

Z

Zama, battle of, p36

Zeitgeist, p44

Decline of the West    Chapter I:  Introduction 
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