Christopher Athanasious Faraone
Curriculum Vitae
| 2019 - | The Edward Olson Professor of Classics, University of Chicago |
| 2005 - 2019 | The Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude University of Melcher Springer Professor in the College and The Humanities, University of Chicago |
| 1998 – 2005 | Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago |
| 1993 – 1998 | Associate Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago |
| 1991 – 1993 | Assistant Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago University |
| 1988 – 1991 | Assistant Professor of Classics and Humanities, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State |
| 1990 + 1995 | Co-Instructor (with T. Carpenter and N. Smith) NEH Summer Institute for School Teachers on Greek Religion |
College and University Service:
- Founder and Co-Director, Center for the Study of Ancient Religions (2008-18)
- Director, Workshop on the Ancient Mediterranean World (1993-97 and 2001-4)
- Lecturer, Humanities Open House (annually 1994-present)
- Lecturer, Alumni Programs and Tours (1995-2003)
- Lecturer, Graham School of Continuing Education (annually 1997-2000)
- Whiting Fellowship Committee (1994)
- Board of Directors, Chicago Humanities Institute (Sept. 1994-June 1996)
- Resident Master, Burton-Judson Courts (Sept 1997-June 2000)
- Interim Chair, Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World (1997-98)
- Chair, Ad Hoc College Group that created Athens Program for the College (1997-98)
- Chair, Ad Hoc College Committee that created a Major in Ancient Studies (1997-98)
- Ryerson Fellowship Committee (1997-1999)
- Spearheaded (with H. Dik) a successful effort to reorganize and expand the teaching of ancient languages in Summer School (1998-99)
- Chair, Adhoc University Committee on International Programs (2000-2001)
- Council on Advanced Studies (2001-2003)
- Director, Greek Thought and Literature Freshman Core Sequence for the College (Fall 2001-2011)
- Chair, Adhoc University Committee on to Advise the Provost and President on Candidates for the Dean of Humanities Division (2003-2004)
- Senior Co-Chair of the University of Chicago Society of Fellows (2005-2013)
- Humanities Division Policy Committee (2005-present)
- Dean of Humanities Planning and Program Committee (2005-2007)
Membership in Professional Organizations:
- American Philological Association, then Society for Classical Studies (APA, then SCS)
- Classical Association for the Midwest and the South (CAMWS)
- Society for Biblical Literature (SBL)
- Women's Classical Caucus (WCC)
Publications
A. Monographs
- Hexametrical Genres from the Homer to Theocritus (Oxford University Press 2021).
- Women and Children First: The Earliest Evidence for Ancient Greek Body Amulets, István Hahn Lectures 7 (Budapest 2019).
- The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times (Philadelphia 2018).
- Vanishing Acts: Deletio Morbi as Speech Act and Visual Design on Ancient Greek Amulets, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 115 (London, 2013).
- The Stanzaic Architecture of Archaic Greek Elegy (Oxford University Press 2008).
- Ancient Greek Love Magic (Harvard University Press, 1999); paperback 2000; modern Greek edition, Αρχαια Ελληνικη Ερωτικη Μαγεια (Papadema, 2004); French edition, Philtres d’amour et sortileges en Grèce ancienne (Editions Payot et Rivages 2006).
- Talismans and Trojan Horses: Guardian Statues in Ancient Greek Myth and Ritual (Oxford University Press, 1992).
B. Edited Collections (co-editor)
- (with K. Endreffy and H. Goette, Everything is Illuminated. Studies on Graeco-Roman Iconography in Honour of Árpád M. Nagy (Rome 2025).
- (with S. Torallas Tovar) From PGM IV to GEMF 57: New Approaches to the Great Paris Magical Codex (DeGruyter Forthcoming)
- (with A. Maravela and S. Torallas Tovar) Late Antique Magic Rolls from Egypt: Contents, Scribal Features, and Contacts (Forthcoming 2026).
- (with S. Torallas Tovar) The Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies vol. 2 (Berkeley forthcoming 2026).
- (with S. Torallas Tovar), The Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies: Libraries, Books and Individual Recipes (Ann Arbor 2022)
- (with S. Torallas Tovar) The Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies vol. 1 (Berkeley 2022).
- (with I. Polinskaya), Curses in Context 3: The Greek Curse Tablets of the Classical and Hellenistic Periods, Papers and Monographs from the Norwegian Institute at Athens 12 (Athens 2021).
- (with D. Obbink), The Getty Hexameters: Poetry, Magic and Mystery in Ancient Greek Selinous (Oxford 2013).
- (with F. Naiden), Ancient Victims, Modern Observers: Reflections on Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice (Cambridge 2012).
- (with L. McClure), Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World (Madison 2006).
- (with D. Dodd) Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives: New Critical Perspectives (Routledge 2003).
- (with T. Carpenter) Masks of Dionysus (Cornell University Press, 1993; second printing 1996).
- (with D. Obbink) Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion (Oxford University Press, 1991; paperback 1996).
C. Articles
- “Water Nymphs on the Fourth-Century CE Curse Tablets from the Via Appia and the Fountain of Anna Perenna in Rome” Latomus (2025) 244-59.
- (with S. Torallas Tovar) “GEMF 52 (PGM XXIVa): A Hybrid Case of Greco-Egyptian Cleromancy?” Journal of Early Christianity 16 (2025) 133-51.
- “Copper as a Jewish Medium for Inscribed Amulets and Curses in Late Antiquity” Jewish Studies Quarterly (2025) forthcoming.
- “The Different Receptions of Mosaic and Solomonic Amulets in the Roman and Late-Antique Periods” Quotidiana: Journal for the Study of Lived Religion 1 (2025) forthcoming.
- “The New Curse Tablet from Cos and the Lost Magical Handbook that Produced It” Symbolae Osloensis (2025) forthcoming.
- “King Semea and the Scarab and a Prayer to the Sun: Two Problematic Invocations in a Magical Handbook from Roman Thebes (GEMF 55/PGM III)” Kernos (2025) forthcoming.
