Christopher Athanasious Faraone

Forschungsinteressen

• Magische Amulette
• Magie und magische Formeln
• Antike Körperamulette

Curriculum Vitae

2019 -	Edward Olson Professor of Classics, University of Chicago
2005 - 2019	Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the College and the Humanities, University of Chicago
1998 – 2005	Professor für Klassische Sprachen und Literaturen, University of Chicago
1993 – 1998	Associate Professor für Klassische Sprachen und Literatur, University of Chicago
1991 – 1993	Assistant Professor für Klassische Sprachen und Literatur, University of Chicago
1988 – 1991	Assistant Professor Klassische Philologie und Geisteswissenschaften, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
1990 und 1995	Co-Instructor (mit T. Carpenter und N. Smith), NEH Summer Institute for School Teachers on Greek Religion

 

Akademische und Administrative Dienste

• Gründer und Co-Direktor, Center for the Study of Ancient Religions (2008–2018)
• Direktor, Workshop on the Ancient Mediterranean World (1993–97 und 2001–2004)
• Dozent, Humanities Open House (jährlich 1994–heute)
• Dozent, Alumni Programs and Tours (1995–2003)
• Dozent, Graham School of Continuing Education (jährlich 1997–2000)
• Mitglied, Whiting Fellowship Committee (1994)
• Mitglied des Board of Directors, Chicago Humanities Institute (Sept. 1994 – Juni 1996)
• Resident Master, Burton-Judson Courts (Sept. 1997 – Juni 2000)
• Interim Chair, Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World (1997–98)
• Chair, Ad Hoc College Group zur Einrichtung des Athens Program für das College (1997–98)
• Chair, Ad Hoc College Committee zur Einrichtung eines Studiengangs Ancient Studies (1997–98)
• Mitglied, Ryerson Fellowship Committee (1997–1999)
• Federführend (mit H. Dik) bei der Reorganisation und Erweiterung der Sommerkurse für antike Sprachen (1998–99)
• Chair, Adhoc University Committee on International Programs (2000–2001)
• Mitglied, Council on Advanced Studies (2001–2003)
• Direktor, Greek Thought and Literature Freshman Core Sequence (Herbst 2001–2011)
• Chair, Adhoc University Committee zur Beratung des Provost und des President bei der Auswahl des Dean of Humanities Division (2003–2004)
• Senior Co-Chair, University of Chicago Society of Fellows (2005–2013)
• Mitglied, Humanities Division Policy Committee (2005–heute)
• Mitglied, Dean of Humanities Planning and Program Committee (2005–2007)

Mitgliedschaften in Fachgesellschaften

• American Philological Association / Society for Classical Studies (APA / SCS)
• Classical Association for the Midwest and the South (CAMWS)
• Society for Biblical Literature (SBL)
• Women's Classical Caucus (WCC)

Publikationen (Auswahl)

A. Monographien

• 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. Herausgegebene Sammelbände (Mitherausgeber)

• (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. Artikel

• “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.