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Christopher A. Faraone

{{Short description|American classisist (b. 1955)}}

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| title = Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor

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| awards = John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities

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| alma_mater = Stanford University

| thesis_title = Talismans, voodoo dolls and other apotropaic images in ancient Greek myth and ritual

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| thesis_year = 1988

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| workplaces = University of Chicago

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| main_interests = Ancient Greek poetry, religion and magic

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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.{{cite web |title=Faculty Appointments |url=https://annualreport.uchicago.edu/faculty-appointments/ |website=Annual Report |publisher=The University of Chicago}} His work largely covers the study of Ancient Greek poetry, religion and magic,{{cite web |title=Christopher Faraone |url=https://classics.uchicago.edu/people/christopher-faraone |website=Department of Classics |publisher=University of Chicago}} from sources such as text, myths, rituals,{{cite journal |last1=McDonald |first1=Katherine |title=Review of: Vanishing Acts on Ancient Greek Amulets: From Oral Performance to Visual Design. BICS supplement, 115 |url=https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2016/2016.02.44 |journal=Bryn Mawr Classical Review }}{{cite journal |last1=Hubbard |first1=Thomas K. |title=Review of Ancient Greek Love Magic |journal=Journal of the History of Sexuality |date=2001 |volume=10 |issue=3/4 |pages=542–545 |doi=10.1353/sex.2001.0069 |jstor=3704761 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3704761 |issn=1043-4070}} and hymns,{{cite journal |last1=Furley |first1=William |title=Review of: Hexametrical genres from Homer to Theocritus |url=https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2022/2022.06.37/ |journal=Bryn Mawr Classical Review }} and from objects such as pottery,{{cite journal |last1=Faraone |first1=Christopher A. |title=Taking the "Nestor's Cup Inscription" Seriously: Erotic Magic and Conditional Curses in the Earliest Inscribed Hexameters |journal=Classical Antiquity |date=1996 |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=77–112 |doi=10.2307/25011032 |jstor=25011032 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25011032 |issn=0278-6656}} papyrus,{{cite journal |last1=Faraone |first1=Christopher A. |title=Hermes but No Marrow: Another Look at a Puzzling Magical Spell |journal=Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik |date=1988 |volume=72 |pages=279–286 |jstor=20186827 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20186827 |issn=0084-5388}}{{cite journal |last1=Galoppin |first1=Thomas |title=Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies: Text and Translation |journal=Kernos |date=31 December 2022 |volume=1 |issue=35 |pages=401–404 |doi=10.4000/kernos.4476 |url=https://journals.openedition.org/kernos/4476|doi-access=free }} inscriptions on gems,{{cite journal |last1=de Bruyn |first1=Theodore |title=The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times by Christopher A. Faraone |journal=Journal of Early Christian Studies |date=2019 |volume=27 |issue=4 |pages=667–669 |doi=10.1353/earl.2019.0059}} curse tablets,{{cite thesis |last1=Scheiding |first1=Kathryn Jean |title=I consign her wretched walk, her words, deeds, and evil talk: erotic magic and women in the ancient Greco-Roman world |url=https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/35428 |website=MOspace Institutional Repository |publisher=University of Missouri-Kansas City |language=en |date=2013|type=Thesis }}{{cite journal |last1=Edmonds |first1=Radcliffe G. |title=Contingent Catastrophe or Agonistic Advantage: The Rhetoric of Violence in Classical Athenian Curses |journal=Greece and Rome |date=April 2022 |volume=69 |issue=1 |pages=8–26 |doi=10.1017/S0017383521000206 |url=https://repository.brynmawr.edu/classics_pubs/137/|doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1=Venticinque |first1=Philip |title=Bound for Success: Cursing and Commerce in Classical Athens |journal=Greece and Rome |date=April 2022 |volume=69 |issue=1 |pages=52–71 |doi=10.1017/S001738352100022X |doi-access=free }} and figurines or effigies.{{cite journal |last1=Collins |first1=Derek |title=Nature, Cause, and Agency in Greek Magic |journal=Transactions of the American Philological Association |date=2003 |volume=133 |issue=1 |page=42 |jstor=20054074 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20054074 |issn=0360-5949}}{{cite journal |last1=Dillon |first1=Matthew |title=Christopher A. Faraone, Ancient Greek Love Magic. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 223. ISBN 0-674-00696-8. UK£13.95. |journal=Scholia Reviews |date=2003 |volume=12 |issue=4 |url=https://casa-kvsa.org.za/legacy/ScholiaUpdate/2003/03-04far.htm}}{{cite journal |last1=Lamont |first1=Jessica |title=Orality, Written Literacy, and Early Sicilian Curse Tablets |journal=Greece and Rome |date=April 2022 |volume=69 |issue=1 |pages=27–51 |doi=10.1017/S0017383521000218|doi-access=free }} Faraone is considered to be a foremost scholar on ancient Mediterranean magic.{{cite journal |last1=Tuerk-Stonberg |first1=Jacquelyn |title=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=Journal of Roman Studies |date=November 2020 |volume=110 |pages=264–265 |doi=10.1017/S0075435820000258 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/abs/christopher-a-faraone-the-transformation-of-greek-amulets-in-roman-imperial-times-philadelphia-university-of-pennsylvania-press-2018-pp-xv-486-illus-isbn-9780812249354-6900us8995/E67932E03E514EBF71EE1F3EA80A4D07}}

Early life

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",{{cite journal |title=Dissertations in Progress |journal=Syllecta Classica |date=1989 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=133–138 |doi=10.1353/syl.1989.0012 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/456166/summary}} on apotropaic images in Greek myth and ritual under the direction of John J. Winkler.{{cite web |title=Christopher Faraone (U. Chicago): Female Lament in the Iliad: the Play of Hexametrical Genres in Homeric Epic |url=https://classics.stanford.edu/events/christopher-faraone-u-chicago-female-lament-iliad-play-hexametrical-genres-homeric-epic |website=Department of Classics |publisher=Stanford University}}

Professor

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. 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.{{cite news |last1=Schonwald |first1=Josh |title=Christopher Faraone, Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the Humanities and the College |url=https://chronicle.uchicago.edu/080612/faraone.shtml |agency=The University of Chicago Chronicle |issue=27 |publisher=The University of Chicago}} His research focuses on Ancient Greek poetry, religion and magic. His work also encompases studying the materials used in Ancient Greek magic and Ancient Greek magic formulas,{{cite book |last1=Gwynn |first1=David Morton |last2=Lavan |first2=Luke |last3=Bangert |first3=Susanne |title=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" |date=2010 |publisher=Brill |location=Leiden |isbn=978-9004180000 |page=407}} as well as the effects of different cultures and of gender on the use and applications of Ancient Greek magic.{{cite journal |last1=Kadletz |first1=Edward |title=Review of: Ancient Greek Love Magic |url=https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2000/2000.02.19/ |journal=Bryn Mawr Classical Review }}{{cite journal |last1=Brakke |first1=David |title=Ancient Greek Love Magic (review) |journal=Journal of Interdisciplinary History |date=2000 |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=250–251 |doi=10.1162/jinh.2000.31.2.250 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/16034 |issn=1530-9169}}{{cite web |last1=Sanzo |first1=Joseph E. |title=The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times |url=https://readingreligion.org/9780812249354/ |website=Reading Religion |publisher=American Academy of Religion}}{{cite thesis |last1=Matheson |first1=Angela |title=The feminisation of magic in classical Greek literature: the subversive potential of women in the polis |url=https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/publications/the-feminisation-of-magic-in-classical-greek-literature-the-subve |website=UWA Profiles and Research Repository |publisher=University of Western Australia |date=2002|type=Doctoral Thesis }}{{cite journal |last1=Rider |first1=Catherine |title=Women, Men, and Love Magic in Late Medieval English Pastoral Manuals |journal=Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft |date=December 2012 |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=190–211 |doi=10.1353/mrw.2012.0016 |pmid=25878566 |pmc=4395867 }}{{cite journal |last1=Dickie |first1=Matthew W. |title=Who Practised Love-Magic in Classical Antiquity and in the Late Roman World? |journal=The Classical Quarterly |date=2000 |volume=50 |issue=2 |pages=563–583 |doi=10.1093/cq/50.2.563 |jstor=1558912 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1558912 |issn=0009-8388}}{{cite thesis |last=Clarkson |first=B. J. |date=2022|title=Magic, Marriage and the Maiden: Love Magic in the 5th and 4th Centuries B.C.E. |url=http://hdl.handle.net/10523/12727 |website=ourarchive.otago.ac.nz |degree=M.A.|publisher=University of Otago|hdl=10523/12727 }} Additionally, Faraone founded the University of Chicago's Center for the Study of Ancient Religions, which he directed for 10 years from 2008-2018.{{cite web |title=Thirteen UChicago faculty members receive named, distinguished service professorships |url=https://news.uchicago.edu/story/thirteen-uchicago-faculty-members-receive-named-distinguished-service-professorships |website=University of Chicago News |date=2 July 2019 |publisher=University of Chicago Office of Communications}} He has lectured at other universities as well, including the University of Toronto,{{cite web |title=05/30/2023 |url=https://www.classics.utoronto.ca/events/day/2023-05-30 |website=Department of Classics |publisher=Faculty of Arts & Science, University of Toronto}}{{cite web |title=UChicago's Christopher Faraone at the Donor Appreciation Lecture |url=https://www.classics.utoronto.ca/news/uchicagos-christopher-faraone-donor-appreciation-lecture |website=Department of Classics |publisher=Faculty of Arts & Science, University of Toronto}} the University of Texas at San Antonio,{{cite web |title=Brackenridge Distinguished Visiting Lecture Series |url=https://colfa.utsa.edu/philosophy-classics/research/brackenridge-distinguished-visiting-lecture-series.html |website=UTSA's College of Liberal and Fine Arts |publisher=The University of Texas at San Antonio}} and Tulane University.{{cite web |title=2006 Georges Lecture: Magical and Medical Responses to the Wandering Womb in the Ancient Greek World: School of Liberal Arts |url=https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/classical-studies/news-events/dennis-georges-lecture-hellenic-culture/2006-georges-lecture-magical |website=Tulane University School of Liberal Arts |publisher=Tulane University |language=en}}

Major awards

  • 1995 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation{{cite news |title=Guggenheim fellowships awarded to four on faculty |url=https://chronicle.uchicago.edu/950511/guggenheim.shtml |agency=The University of Chicago Chronicle |issue=17 |publisher=The University of Chicago}}
  • 2013 Fellow at Institut d'Etudes Avancées in Paris{{cite web |title=Christopher Faraone |url=https://www.paris-iea.fr/en/fellows/christopher-faraone-41 |website=IEA Paris |publisher=Institut d'études avancées de Paris}}
  • 2013 National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship{{cite web |title=EXPLORING THE HUMAN ENDEAVOR NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013 |url=https://www.neh.gov/sites/default/files/inline-files/2013_neh_annual_report.pdf |website=National Endowment for the Humanities }}
  • 2021 Fellowship at School of Historical Studies in Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey{{cite web |title=Congratulations to Chris Faraone |url=https://classics.uchicago.edu/news/congratulations-chris-faraone |website=Division of the Humanities Classics |publisher=University of Chicago}}
  • 2024 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit by the Society for Classical Studies{{cite web |last1=Patterson |first1=Sara |title=Two Humanities Scholars to Receive the Charles J. Goodwin Award |url=https://humanities.uchicago.edu/articles/2023/11/two-humanities-scholars-receive-charles-j-goodwin-award |website=Division of the Humanities |publisher=University of Chicago}}

Publications

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  • {{cite book |last1=Faraone |first1=Christopher A. |title=Talismans and Trojan horses: guardian statues in ancient Greek myth and ritual |date=1992 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |isbn=0195064046}}
  • {{cite book |last1=Carpenter |first1=Thomas H. |last2=Faraone |first2=Christopher A. |title=Masks of Dionysius |date=1993 |publisher=Cornell university press |location=Ithaca (N.Y.) |isbn=0801427797}}
  • {{cite book |last1=Faraone |first1=Christopher A. |title=Ancient Greek Love Magic |date=30 October 2001 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=9780674006966}}
  • {{cite book |last1=Faraone |first1=Christopher A. |last2=McClure |first2=Laura K. |title=Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World |date=January 2006 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |isbn=978-0-299-21314-5}}
  • {{cite book |last1=Faraone |first1=Christopher A. |title=The transformation of Greek amulets in Roman imperial times |date=2018 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |location=Philadelphia |isbn=9780812249354}}

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  • {{cite journal |last1=Faraone |first1=Christopher A. |title=Hermes but No Marrow: Another Look at a Puzzling Magical Spell |journal=Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik |date=1988 |volume=72 |pages=279–286 |jstor=20186827 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20186827 |issn=0084-5388}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Faraone |first1=Christopher A. |title=Binding and Burying the Forces of Evil: The Defensive Use of "Voodoo Dolls" in Ancient Greece |journal=Classical Antiquity |date=1991 |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=165–220 |doi=10.2307/25010949 |jstor=25010949 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25010949 |issn=0278-6656}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Faraone |first1=Christopher A. |title=Taking the "Nestor's Cup Inscription" Seriously: Erotic Magic and Conditional Curses in the Earliest Inscribed Hexameters |journal=Classical Antiquity |date=1996 |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=77–112 |doi=10.2307/25011032 |jstor=25011032 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25011032 |issn=0278-6656}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Faraone |first1=Christopher A. |title=Salvation and Female Heroics in the Parodos of Aristophanes' Lysistrata |journal=The Journal of Hellenic Studies |date=1997 |volume=117 |pages=38–59 |doi=10.2307/632549 |jstor=632549 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/632549 |issn=0075-4269}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Faraone |first1=Christopher A. |title=Handbooks and Anthologies: The Collection of Greek and Egyptian Incantations in Late Hellenistic Egypt |journal=Archiv für Religionsgeschichte |date=31 January 2000 |volume=2 |issue=1 |doi=10.1515/9783110234183.195}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Faraone |first1=Christopher A. |title=The Undercutter, the Woodcutter, and Greek Demon Names Ending In -Tomos (Hom. Hymn to Dem 228-29) |journal=The American Journal of Philology |date=2001 |volume=122 |issue=1 |pages=1–10 |jstor=1562015 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1562015 |issn=0002-9475}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Faraone |first1=Christopher Athanasious |title=SIMAETHA GOT IT RIGHT, AFTER ALL: THEOCRITUS, IDYLL 2, A COURTESan's PANTRY AND a LOST GREEK TRADITION OF HEXAMETRICAL CURSES |journal=The Classical Quarterly |date=December 2020 |volume=70 |issue=2 |pages=650–663 |doi=10.1017/s0009838821000070}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Faraone |first1=Christopher A. |title=The Lead Tablet from Tongres: Curse or amulet? |journal=Kernos |date=31 December 2021 |issue=34 |pages=219–244 |doi=10.4000/kernos.3881|url=https://journals.openedition.org/kernos/3881 }}

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