"We Greeks own Egypt, the grand monarchy of letters and nobility, to be the parent of our fables, metaphors and doctri…"

"And since Egypt is the country where mythology places the origin of the gods, where the earliest observations of the …"

"It was the belief of the Greeks that many elements of their civilization had come to them from Egypt… [I]n Egypt the …"

"Egypt can be regarded as the mother of all theogonies and the source of all the fictions which the Greeks received an…"

"at a riper age I no longer presume to connect the Greek, the Jewish and the Egyptian antiquities, which are lost in a…"

"How it happened that Egyptians came to the Peloponnese, and what they did to make themselves kings in that part of Gr…"

"The temple of Athena there [Lindos in Rhodes] was founded by the daughters of Danaos, who touched at the island durin…"

"Kadmos, the son of Agenor, touched at it [Thera] during his search for Europa and … left there a number of Phoenicians."

"I propose to hold my tongue about the mysterious rites of Demeter, which the Greeks call Thesmophoria, though … I may…"

"Thus the Phrygians, earliest of all races, call me Pessinuntia, mother of all gods. Thus the Athenians, sprung from t…"