Citations:pornographico-devotional

English citations of pornographico-devotional

• 1939, Arnold Joseph Toynbee, A Study of History, volume V: The Disintegrations of Civilizations: Part One, Oxford University Press (second edition, 1961), page 531:

  This Egyptiac conception of a single universal godhead manifesting itself under a host of local names was not only extended from Re of Heliopolis to Amon-Re of Thebes. In an age when the Egyptiac Civilization itself was on the eve of extinction we find an Egyptiac Isis who by this time had conquered a spiritual empire for herself in an alien Hellenic World laying claim to the same Protean universality in her epiphany to the hero of Apuleius’s pornographico-devotional romance.