Professor Dr. Christopher Faraone

Biography

Professor Christopher Faraone specializes in Ancient Greek poetry and religion magic. He has coedited significant volumes such as 'Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic Religion' (1991) with D. Obbink, 'Masks of Dionysus' (1993) with T. Carpenter, and 'Initiation into Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives: New Critical Perspectives' (2003) with D. Dodd. His influential works include 'Talismans and Trojan Horses: Guardian Statues in Ancient Greek Myth and Ritual' (1992), 'Ancient Greek Love Magic' (1999), and 'Stanzaic Structure in Early Greek Elegy' (2008). Recent contributions include 'Vanishing Acts: Deletio Morbi, Speech Act, and Visual Design in Ancient Greek Amulets' (2013) and 'Getty Hexameters: Poetry, Magic, and Mystery in Ancient Greek Selinous' (2013) with Dirk Obbink. Faraone is currently engaged in co-editing a new Greek text and translation of Greek magical handbooks, supported by the Neubauer Collegium, and he continues to publish articles on topics such as curse tablets and the impact of ancient magical texts. His latest work, 'Hexametrical Genres from Homer to Theocritus,' was published by Oxford University Press in 2021.

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