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Fritz Graf, Distinguished University Professor, Director of Epigraphy

Department of Greek and Latin: http://greekandlatin.osu.edu/
Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies: http://epigraphy.osu.edu/

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Office Information
414K University Hall, 230 North Oval Mall, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: graf.65@osu.edu
Phone: 614-292-2744

Education:
M.A. University of Zurich 1968 · Ph.D. University of Zurich 1971 · Habilitation University of Zurich 1981

General Background:
Personal Statement
When asked how he did research, the great Latinist and Historian of Religion Eduard Norden (1868-1941) explained: "I keep all my ties in one big shoe-box. Every time I try to pull out one specific tie, all the others come out as well, because everything in there is so entangled. This is also the way I do research."

Publications

Books

  1. Apollo (London: Routledge, 2008)
  2. Together with Sarah Iles Johnston: Ritual Texts for the Afterlife. The Bacchic Gold Tablets (London: Routledge, 2007)
  3. Der Lauf des rollenden Jahres. Lectio Teubneriana 6 (Stuttgart and Leipzig: Teubner, 1997)
  4. La magie dans l'antiquité greco-romaine, (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1994, pb 1996). - English: Magic in the Ancient World (Harvard University Press, 1997). - German: Gottesnähe und Schadenzauber (Munich: Beck, 1996). - Italian: La magia nel mondo antico (Bari and Rome: Laterza, 1995). - Greek: I mageía stin ellinoromaiki arkhaotita (Iraklion: University Press of Crete, 2004)
  5. Nordionische Kulte. Epigraphische und religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zu den Kulten von Chios, Erythrai, Klazomenai und Phokaia. Bibliotheca Helvetica Romana 21 (Rome: Istituto Svizzero, 1984)
  6. Griechische Mythologie. Eine Einführung (Munich and Zürich: Artemis 1984, 4th German ed. 1997). - English: Greek Mythology. An Introduction (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1992); Italian: Il mito in Grecia (Bari and Rome: Laterza, 1987)
  7. Eleusis und die orphische Dichtung Athens in vorhellenistischer Zeit. Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten 33 (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 1974)

Edited Books

  1. Walter Burkert, Kleine Schriften III: Mystica, Orphica, Pythagorica (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht, 2006). - IV/V: Mythica, Ritualia, Religiosa 1/2 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht, 2011).
  2. Einleitung in die Lateinische Philologie (Stuttgart and Leipzig: Teubner 1997). - Italian: Introduzione alla Filologia Latina (Rome: Salerno Editore, 2003). - Greek translation: Thessalonike, 2003.
  3. Ansichten griechischer Rituale. Geburtstags-Symposium für Walter Bukert (Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1998)
  4. Mythos in mythenloser Gesellschaft. Das Paradigma Rom. Colloquium Rauricum 3 (Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1993)
  5. Klassische Antike und neue Wege der Kulturwissenschaften. Symposium Karl Meuli (Basel, 11.-13. September 1991). Beiträge zur Volkskunde 11 (Basel: Verlag SGV 1992)

Co-edited Volumes

  1. Herwig Goergemanns, Barbara Feichtinger, Fritz Graf, Werner Jeanrond and Jan Opsomer, Plutarch. Dialog über die Liebe. Amatorius . SAPERE 10 (Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006)
  2. Jacob Burckhardt. Griechische Culturgeschichte, ed. by Leonhard Burckhardt, F. G., Barbara von Reibnitz and Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg. Vols. 1 and 3 (Munich: Beck, 2003)
  3. Wanderungen, ed. by F. G. und Erik Hornung. Eranos Jahrbuch, Neue Reihe 3 (Munich: Fink, 1995)
  4. Joachim Latacz: Erschliessung der Antike. Kleine Schriften zur Literatur der Griechen und Römer, ed. by F. G., Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg and Arbogast Schmitt (Stuttgart and Leipzig: Teubner, 1994)

Recent Articles

  1. "Text and Ritual. The Corpus Eschatologicum of the Orphics," in: R. Edmonds III, ed., The 'Orphic' Gold Tablets and Greek Religion (Cambridge: C.U.P., 2011), 53-67
  2. "The Blessings of Madness," Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 12 (2010), 167-180
  3. "Dreams, Visions and Revelations: Dreams in the Thought of the Latin Fathers," in: C. Walde and E. Scioli, eds., Sub Imagine Somni: Nighttime Phenomena in Greco-Roman Culture (Pisa: ETS, 2010), 211-231
  4. "The Kyrbantes of Erythrai," in: G. Reger, F. X. Ryan and T. F. Winters, eds., Studies in Greek Epigraphy and History in Honor of Stephen V. Tracy (Bordeaux: Ausonius, 2010), 587-605
  5. "Gods in Greek Inscriptions: Some Methodological Questions," in: Jan N. Bremmer and Andrew Erskine, eds.,The Gods of Ancient Greece. Identities and Transformations (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), 2010, 55-80
  6. "Earthquakes and the Gods: Reflections on Graeco-Roman Responses to Catastrophic Events," in: Jitse Dijkstra, Justin Kroesen and Yme Kuiper, eds., Myths, Martyrs, and Modernity, Studies in the History of Religions in Honour of Jan N. Bremmer (Leiden: Brill, 2010),95-113
      7. Full CV.

      Classics
      Ancient Religions and Mythologies
      History of Scholarship

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