Franz Cumont (1868–1947)

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1. Mircea Eliade

   Author of The Myth of the Eternal Return: Or, Cosmos and History, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy

2. Franz Cumont

   Author of The Mysteries of Mithra, Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism, Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans

3. Martin P. Nilsson

   Author of Greek Folk Religion, A history of Greek religion, Imperial Rome

4. Walter Burkert

   Author of Greek Religion, Ancient Mystery Cults (Carl Newell Jackson Lectures), Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth

5. Frances Yates

   Author of Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment

6. M. I. Finley

   Author of Aspects of Antiquity: Discoveries and Controversies, Early Greece: The Bronze and Archaic Ages (Ancient Culture and Society)

7. David Ulansey

   Author of The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World

8. Marvin Meyer

   Author of The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook : Sacred Texts of the Mystery Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean World, Ancient Christian Magic

9. E.R. Dodds

   Author of The Greeks and the Irrational (Sather Classical Lectures), Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety: Some Aspects of Religious Experience from Marcus Aurelius to Constantine (The Wiles Lectures Given at the,)

10. Jean Seznec

    Author of The Survival of the Pagan Gods

11. Samuel Angus

    Author of The Mystery-Religions

12. W. K. C. Guthrie

    Author of Orpheus and Greek Religion (Mythos Books), In the Beginning

13. D. Jason Cooper

    Author of Mithras: Mysteries and Inititation Rediscovered

14. Francis Macdonald Cornford

    Author of Before and After Socrates, From Religion to Philosophy: A Study in the Origins of Western Speculation

15. Hans Jonas

    Author of The Gnostic Religion

16. Jessie L. Weston

    Author of From Ritual to Romance

17. Joseph Campbell

    Author of The Mysteries: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks

18. Norman Cohn

    Author of The Pursuit of the Millennium

19. Morton Scott Enslin

    Author of Christian beginnings

20. Garth Fowden

    Author of The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind