Christopher A. Faraone

Christopher A. Faraone (* 1955 ) is an American Graecist .

Faraone received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1988. and has been a member of the faculty of the University of Chicago since 1991 , where he is Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classical Languages ​​and Literature .

His focus is on archaic and Hellenistic Greek poetry, ancient magic and the Greek religion as well as the oriental influences on Greek culture.

Fonts

Monographs

• Talismans and Trojan Horses: Guardian Statues in Ancient Greek Myth and Ritual (Oxford University Press, 1992)
• Ancient Greek Love Magic (Harvard University Press, 1999). Review by: Matthew Dillon, in: Scholia Reviews ns 12 (2003) 4; by: NS Gill, in: About.com [1]
• The Stanzaic Architecture of Early Greek Elegy (Oxford Univ. Press, 2008), ISBN 0-199-23698-4

Editorships

• (Ed., With Dirk Obbink ): Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion (Oxford University Press, 1991). Review of: Simon Pulleyn, in: The Classical Review, New Series, Vol. 42.1 (1992), pp. 89-90
• (Ed., With Thomas H. Carpenter): Masks of Dionysus (Cornell University Press, 1993). Review by: Anton FH Bierl , in: Gnomon 69 (1997) 389–398; by: Richard Hamilton, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 05/04/21 [2]
• (Ed., With David Brooks Dodd): Initiation in ancient Greek rituals and narratives: new critical perspectives (Routledge, 2003), ISBN 0-415-28920-3 Google books [3] . Review by: Veit Rosenberger, in: Historische Zeitschrift 285, 2007, 148–149
• (Ed., With Laura K. McClure): Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World . (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006), ISBN 0-299-21314-5 . Review by Anise K. Strong, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.05.40 [4]

items

• (with Roy Kotansky): An Inscribed Gold Phylactery in Stamford, Connecticut , in: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 75 (1988) 257–266 ( PDF )
• Notes on Three Greek Magical Texts , in: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 100 (1994) 81–85 ( PDF )
• The Ethnic Origins of a Roman Era Philtrokatadesmos (PGM IV 296-434) , in: Paul Allan Mirecki, Marvin W. Meyer (eds.): Magic and ritual in the ancient world (Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, Vol. 141 ; Brill: Leiden 2002), pp. 319-343, ISBN 9-004-11676-1
• (with Emily Teeter): Egyptian Maat and Hesiodic Metis , in Mnemosyne, Fourth Series, Vol. 57.2 (2004), pp. 177–208 [5]
• The Collapse of Celestial and Chthonic Realms in a Late Antique “Apollonian Invocation” (PGM I 262-347) , in: Ra'anan S. Boustan, Ra'anan S. Boustan, Annette Yoshiko Reed (eds.): Heavenly realms and earthly realities in late antique religions (Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 213-232, ISBN 0-521-83102-4
• Thumos as masculine ideal and social pathology in ancient Greek magical spells , in: Susanna Braund, Glenn W. Most (eds.): Ancient Anger. Perspectives from Homer to Galen (Cambridge University Press, 2004), ISBN 0-511-16215-4

Reviews

• Review of: Simone Michel : The magical gems in the British Museum , London 2001, in: American Journal of Archeology 111. 1 (2007) Online Publications ( PDF )

Web links

• Page at the University of Chicago
• Ancient Greek Curse Tablets , Interview with Christopher A. Faraone (English)