Preview   This book is eye-opening for those (like the present reviewer) who, out of a combination of naivety and laziness, assume that the history of scholarship on the Greek mysteries begins in the 19th century: specifically, with Christian Lobeck’s Aglaophamus (1825), which refuted Georg Friedrich Creuzer’s Symbolik und Mythologie der Alten Völker, besonders der … Continue reading Eleusis and Enlightenment: the problem of the mysteries in eighteenth-century thought