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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]

Early life

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Christopher A. Faraone received his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1988, and wrote his dissertation, "Talismans, voodoo dolls and other apotropaic images in ancient Greek myth and ritual",[17] on apotropaic images in Greek myth and ritual under the direction of John J. Winkler.[18]

Professor

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Since the 2021-2022 schoolyear, Faraone has been the Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Classics and the College at the University of Chicago.[1] He has previously been the Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the Humanities and the College, and has taught at the University of Chicago since 1991.[19] His research focuses on Ancient Greek poetry, religion and magic.[2] His work also encompases studying the materials used in Ancient Greek magic and Ancient Greek magic formulas,[9][20] as well as the effects of different cultures and of gender on the use and applications of Ancient Greek magic.[21][22][23][24][25][26][27] Additionally, Faraone founded the University of Chicago's Center for the Study of Ancient Religions, which he directed for 10 years from 2008-2018.[28] He has lectured at other universities as well, including the University of Toronto,[29][30] the University of Texas at San Antonio,[31] and Tulane University.[32]

Major awards

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Publications

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Books

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  • Faraone, Christopher A. (1992). Talismans and Trojan horses: guardian statues in ancient Greek myth and ritual. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195064046.
  • Carpenter, Thomas H.; Faraone, Christopher A. (1993). Masks of Dionysius. Ithaca (N.Y.): Cornell university press. ISBN 0801427797.
  • Faraone, Christopher A. (30 October 2001). Ancient Greek Love Magic. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674006966.
  • Faraone, Christopher A.; McClure, Laura K. (January 2006). Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-21314-5.
  • Faraone, Christopher A. (2018). The transformation of Greek amulets in Roman imperial times. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 9780812249354.

Articles

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Faculty Appointments". Annual Report. The University of Chicago.
  2. ^ a b "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. ^ a b 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.
  17. ^ "Dissertations in Progress". Syllecta Classica. 1 (1): 133–138. 1989. doi:10.1353/syl.1989.0012.
  18. ^ "Christopher Faraone (U. Chicago): Female Lament in the Iliad: the Play of Hexametrical Genres in Homeric Epic". Department of Classics. Stanford University.
  19. ^ Schonwald, Josh. "Christopher Faraone, Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the Humanities and the College". No. 27. The University of Chicago. The University of Chicago Chronicle.
  20. ^ Gwynn, David Morton; Lavan, Luke; Bangert, Susanne (2010). Religious diversity in late antiquity: ... conference ... met in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford in March 2005, under the title "The Religion of 'the Rest': Heresy, Apathy and Popular Piety in Late Antiquity". Leiden: Brill. p. 407. ISBN 978-9004180000.
  21. ^ Kadletz, Edward. "Review of: Ancient Greek Love Magic". Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
  22. ^ Brakke, David (2000). "Ancient Greek Love Magic (review)". Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 31 (2): 250–251. doi:10.1162/jinh.2000.31.2.250. ISSN 1530-9169.
  23. ^ Sanzo, Joseph E. "The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times". Reading Religion. American Academy of Religion.
  24. ^ Matheson, Angela (2002). The feminisation of magic in classical Greek literature: the subversive potential of women in the polis. UWA Profiles and Research Repository (Doctoral Thesis). University of Western Australia.
  25. ^ Rider, Catherine (December 2012). "Women, Men, and Love Magic in Late Medieval English Pastoral Manuals". Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft. 7 (2): 190–211. doi:10.1353/mrw.2012.0016. PMC 4395867. PMID 25878566.
  26. ^ Dickie, Matthew W. (2000). "Who Practised Love-Magic in Classical Antiquity and in the Late Roman World?". The Classical Quarterly. 50 (2): 563–583. doi:10.1093/cq/50.2.563. ISSN 0009-8388. JSTOR 1558912.
  27. ^ Clarkson, B. J. (2022). Magic, Marriage and the Maiden: Love Magic in the 5th and 4th Centuries B.C.E. ourarchive.otago.ac.nz (M.A. thesis). University of Otago. hdl:10523/12727.
  28. ^ "Thirteen UChicago faculty members receive named, distinguished service professorships". University of Chicago News. University of Chicago Office of Communications. 2 July 2019.
  29. ^ "05/30/2023". Department of Classics. Faculty of Arts & Science, University of Toronto.
  30. ^ "UChicago's Christopher Faraone at the Donor Appreciation Lecture". Department of Classics. Faculty of Arts & Science, University of Toronto.
  31. ^ "Brackenridge Distinguished Visiting Lecture Series". UTSA's College of Liberal and Fine Arts. The University of Texas at San Antonio.
  32. ^ "2006 Georges Lecture: Magical and Medical Responses to the Wandering Womb in the Ancient Greek World: School of Liberal Arts". Tulane University School of Liberal Arts. Tulane University.
  33. ^ "Guggenheim fellowships awarded to four on faculty". No. 17. The University of Chicago. The University of Chicago Chronicle.
  34. ^ "Christopher Faraone". IEA Paris. Institut d'études avancées de Paris.
  35. ^ "EXPLORING THE HUMAN ENDEAVOR NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013" (PDF). National Endowment for the Humanities.
  36. ^ "Congratulations to Chris Faraone". Division of the Humanities Classics. University of Chicago.
  37. ^ Patterson, Sara. "Two Humanities Scholars to Receive the Charles J. Goodwin Award". Division of the Humanities. University of Chicago.
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