Fritz Graf
Distinguished University Professor of Classics, Director of Epigraphy
414 University Hall
230 N. Oval Mall
Columbus, OH
43210
Areas of Expertise
- Greek Epigraphy
- History of Scholarship
- Ancient Religions and Mythologies
Education
- Ph.D., University of Zurich, 1971
- Habilitation University of Zurich, 1981
- M.A., University of Zurich, 1968
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."
Books
Der Lauf des rollenden Jahres. Lectio Teubneriana 6 (Stuttgart and Leipzig: Teubner, 1997)
Nordionische Kulte. Epigraphische und religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zu den Kulten von Chios, Erythrai, Klazomenai und Phokaia. Bibliotheca Helvetica Romana 21 (Rome: Istituto Svizzero, 1984)
Co-edited Volumes
Herwig Goergemanns, Barbara Feichtinger, Fritz Graf, Werner Jeanrond and Jan Opsomer, Plutarch. Dialog über die Liebe. Amatorius . SAPERE 10 (Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006)
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)
Wanderungen, ed. by F. G. und Erik Hornung. Eranos Jahrbuch, Neue Reihe 3 (Munich: Fink, 1995)
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
“Individual and Common Cult: Epigraphic Reflections,” in: Jörg Rüpke, ed., The Individual in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 115-135
“The Christian Transformation of Magic,” in: Emilio Suárez de la Torre and Aurelio Pérez Jiménez, eds., Mito y Magia in Grecia y Roma (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 2013), 289-300
“One Generation after Burkert and Girard: Where Are the Great Theories?”, in:Christopher A. Faraone and Fred Naiden, eds., Greek and Roman Sacrifice. Ancient Victims, Modern Observers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 32-51
“A Satirist’s Sacrifices. Lucian’s On Sacrifices and the Contestation of Religious Traditions,” in: Jennifer W. Knust and Zsuzsana Várhelyi, eds.,Ancient Mediterranean Sacrifice (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 203-213
“Baptism and Graeco-Roman Mystery Cults,” in: David Hellholm, Tor Vegge, Øyvind, Norderval, Christer Hellholm, eds., Ablution, Initiation, and Baptism. Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2011), 101-118
“Magic and Divination. Two Apolline Oracles on Magic,”, in: Gideon Bohak et all., Continuity and Innovation in the Magical Tradition. Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture15 (Leiden, Brill, 2011), 119-133