Christopher A. Faraone

Christopher A. Faraone
Born1955 (age 68–69)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationClassicist
TitleEdward Olson Distinguished Service Professor
AwardsJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities
Academic background
Alma materStanford University
ThesisTalismans, voodoo dolls and other apotropaic images in ancient Greek myth and ritual (1988)
Doctoral advisorJohn J. Winkler
Academic work
DisciplineClassics
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
Main interestsAncient Greek poetry, religion and magic
Notable worksFaraone, Christopher A. (30 October 2001). Ancient Greek Love Magic. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674006966.

Christopher A. Faraone (born 1955) is an American classicist. He is the Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Classics and the College at the University of Chicago.[1] His work largely covers the study of Ancient Greek poetry, religion and magic,[2] from sources such as text, myths, rituals,[3][4] and hymns,[5] and from objects such as pottery,[6] papyrus,[7][8] inscriptions on gems,[9] curse tablets,[10][11][12] and figurines or effigies.[13][14][15] Faraone is considered to be a foremost scholar on ancient Mediterranean magic.[16]

  1. ^ "Faculty Appointments". Annual Report. The University of Chicago.
  2. ^ "Christopher Faraone". Department of Classics. University of Chicago.
  3. ^ McDonald, Katherine. "Review of: Vanishing Acts on Ancient Greek Amulets: From Oral Performance to Visual Design. BICS supplement, 115". Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
  4. ^ Hubbard, Thomas K. (2001). "Review of Ancient Greek Love Magic". Journal of the History of Sexuality. 10 (3/4): 542–545. doi:10.1353/sex.2001.0069. ISSN 1043-4070. JSTOR 3704761.
  5. ^ Furley, William. "Review of: Hexametrical genres from Homer to Theocritus". Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
  6. ^ Faraone, Christopher A. (1996). "Taking the "Nestor's Cup Inscription" Seriously: Erotic Magic and Conditional Curses in the Earliest Inscribed Hexameters". Classical Antiquity. 15 (1): 77–112. doi:10.2307/25011032. ISSN 0278-6656. JSTOR 25011032.
  7. ^ Faraone, Christopher A. (1988). "Hermes but No Marrow: Another Look at a Puzzling Magical Spell". Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 72: 279–286. ISSN 0084-5388. JSTOR 20186827.
  8. ^ Galoppin, Thomas (31 December 2022). "Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies: Text and Translation". Kernos. 1 (35): 401–404. doi:10.4000/kernos.4476.
  9. ^ de Bruyn, Theodore (2019). "The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times by Christopher A. Faraone". Journal of Early Christian Studies. 27 (4): 667–669. doi:10.1353/earl.2019.0059.
  10. ^ Scheiding, Kathryn Jean (2013). I consign her wretched walk, her words, deeds, and evil talk: erotic magic and women in the ancient Greco-Roman world. MOspace Institutional Repository (Thesis). University of Missouri-Kansas City.
  11. ^ Edmonds, Radcliffe G. (April 2022). "Contingent Catastrophe or Agonistic Advantage: The Rhetoric of Violence in Classical Athenian Curses". Greece and Rome. 69 (1): 8–26. doi:10.1017/S0017383521000206.
  12. ^ Venticinque, Philip (April 2022). "Bound for Success: Cursing and Commerce in Classical Athens". Greece and Rome. 69 (1): 52–71. doi:10.1017/S001738352100022X.
  13. ^ Collins, Derek (2003). "Nature, Cause, and Agency in Greek Magic". Transactions of the American Philological Association. 133 (1): 42. ISSN 0360-5949. JSTOR 20054074.
  14. ^ Dillon, Matthew (2003). "Christopher A. Faraone, Ancient Greek Love Magic. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 223. ISBN 0-674-00696-8. UK£13.95". Scholia Reviews. 12 (4).
  15. ^ Lamont, Jessica (April 2022). "Orality, Written Literacy, and Early Sicilian Curse Tablets". Greece and Rome. 69 (1): 27–51. doi:10.1017/S0017383521000218.
  16. ^ Tuerk-Stonberg, Jacquelyn (November 2020). "CHRISTOPHER A. FARAONE, THE TRANSFORMATION OF GREEK AMULETS IN ROMAN IMPERIAL TIMES. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. xv + 486, illus. isbn 9780812249354. £69.00/US$89.95". Journal of Roman Studies. 110: 264–265. doi:10.1017/S0075435820000258.