1. PERSONAL DATA

Name
Fritz Graf
Office addresses
1. Department of Greek and Latin, The Ohio State University, 414 University Hall, 230 North Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210-1319, Ph. (614) 292-7810
2. Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, 190 Pressey Hall, 1070 Carmack Drive, Columbus OH 43210, Ph. (614) 688-5553
Citizenship
U.S.A.; Switzerland

2. PROFESSIONAL DATA

2.1  Degrees
1981 Habilitation, University of Zürich
1971 Ph.D., University of Zürich
1968 lic.phil., University of Zürich

2.2 University Positions
2002- Professor of Greek and Latin, Dept. of Greek and Latin, The Ohio State University
1999-2002 Professor, Dept. of Classics, Princeton University (2000 -2002 Andrew Fleming White Professor)
1987-1999 Professor, Chair of Latin Philology and Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean, Basel University, Switzerland
1992 (Spring) Directeur d’Études Associé, École Normale Supérieur, Ve section, Sorbonne, Paris
1981-1987 Privatdozent for Classical Philology, Zürich University
Visiting professorships at the universities of Basel, Berne, Lucerne, Urbino (IT), Cosenza (IT), University of Chicago

2.5 Major Fellowships, Awards and Honors
2021 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2018 Philosophiae Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Fribourg
2012 Fellow, Lichtenberg Kolleg der Universität Goettingen (Spring Semester) 
2009 Distinguished University Professor of Classics, OSU
2009 University Distinguished Scholar, OSU
2004/5 Guggenheim Fellow
2004/5 ACLS Fellow
2002 Named Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute (permanent)
1994-1997 Major Grant from the Fonds National Suisse pour la Rechercher Scientifique for an Edition of Burckhardt, Griechische Culturgeschichte (senior researcher)
1990-1994 Major Grant from the Fonds National Suisse pour la Rechercher Scientifique for an Edition of Bachofen, Gesammelte Werke (senior researcher)
1983/84 Junior Fellow, The Society for The Humanities, Cornell University
1973/74 Regular Fellow, Istituto Svizzero di Roma
1972-1975 Junior Research Grant, Fonds National Suisse pour la Rechercher Scientifique

3. PUBLICATIONS
3.1 Books
a. Monographs
2016  Roman Festivals in the Greek East from the Early Empire to the Middle Byzantine Era, Cambridge: C.U.P.
2012 Ritual Texts for the Afterlife. The Bacchic Gold Tablets, London: Routledge (co-authored with Sarah Iles Johnston) –Revised and augmented edition of 2007.
2008  Apollo (London: Routledge)
2007 Ritual Texts for the Afterlife. The Bacchic Gold Tablets, London: Routledge (co-authored with Sarah Iles Johnston) – Second augmented edition 2012
1997 Der Lauf des rollenden Jahres (Lectio Teubneriana 6), Stuttgart and Leipzig: Teubner
1994 La magie dans l’antiquité gréco-romaine, Paris: Les Belles Lettres (pb 1996) (translations into English, German, Italian, Greek and Hungarian)
1985 Griechische Mythologie. Eine Einführung, Munich and Zürich: Artemis (4th ed. 1997) (translations into English, Italian, and Chinese)
1985 Nordionische Kulte. Religionsgeschichtliche und epigraphische Untersuchungen zu den Kulten von Chios, Erythrai, Klazomenai und Phokaia (Bibliotheca Helvetica Romana 22), Rome: Institut Suisse de Rome 
1974 Eleusis und die orphische Dichtung Athens in vorhellenistischer Zeit (RGVV 33), Berlin/New York: De Gruyter

b. Editor of collective works
2011 Editor of the annual volume of Archiv für Religionsgeschichte, vol. 13 (Berlin: de Gruyter) 
2011 Walter Burkert, Kleine Gesammelte Schriften. 4 and 5: Mythica et Ritualistica, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck
2006 Walter Burkert, Kleine Gesammelte Schriften. 3: Orphica et Pythagorica, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck 
2006 Editor of the annual volume of Archiv für Religionsgeschichte, vol. 8 (Munich: Saur)
2005 Editor of the section “Persecution and Conflict in Ancient Mediterranean Religions”, Archiv für Religionsgeschichte, vol. 7 (Munich: Saur)
2003 Responsible editor of the annual volume of Archiv für Religionsgeschichte, vol. 5 (Stuttgart and Leipzig: Teubner)
1998 Ansichten griechischer Rituale. Geburtstagskolloquium Walter Burkert, Stuttgart and Leipzig: Teubner
1997 Einleitung in die Lateinische Philologie, Stuttgart and Leipzig: Teubner (translations into Italian and Greek)		
1993 Mythos in mythenloser Gesellschaft. Das Paradeigma Roms (Colloquia Raurica 3), Stuttgart and Leipzig: 							Teubner
1992 Klassisches Altertum und Kulturwissenschaft auf neuen Wegen. Symposium Karl Meuli, Basel: Reinhardt

c. Co-editor of collective works (except journals)
2015 Johann Jakob Bachofen, Gesammelte Werke Vol. 9: Reiseberichte, Autobiographie, Varia, eds. Andreas Cesana† and Fritz Graf, with contributions by Andrea Bollinger (Basel: Schwabe)

2004 co-ed. (with Sarah Iles Johnston, editor-in-chief, Tzvi Abusch, Jan Assmann et all.), Religions of the Ancient World. A Guide , Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U.P. 
2002 co-ed. (with Leonhard Burckhardt, Barbara von Reibnitz, Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg), Jacob Burckhardt.Griechische Culturgeschichte. Band 1. Band 3. Munich: Beck
1996ff. co-ed. Der Neue Pauly, Stuttgart: Metzler (vol. 1 1996, vol. 2 1997, vol. 3 1997, vol. 4/5 1998, vol. 6 1999: Area editor for mythology and religions.
1995 co-ed. (with Erik Hornung) Wanderungen (Eranos-Jahrbuch, Neue Reihe 3), Munich: Fink
1994 co-ed. (with Arbogast Schmitt and Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg) Joachim Latacz. Erschliessung der Antike. Kleine Schriften zur Literatur der Griechen und Römer, Stuttgart/Leipzig: Teubner

d. Editorship of scholarly journals and monograph series
Collection Tusculum (1988-1998)
Museum Helveticum (Schwabe: Basel) (1988-1998)
Archiv für Religionsgeschichte (Teubner: Stuttgart; then Saur: Munich; then De Gruyter: Berlin) (1991-2006)
Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten (De Gruyter: Berlin) (1988-2006)
MHNH: Revista Internacional de Investigación sobre Magia y Astrología Antiguas (Malaga) (2001-present) 

3.2. Selected Recent Papers
2021 “Caloric Codes: Ancient Greek Animal Sacrifice,” in: Julia Kindt, ed., Animals in Ancient Greek Religion (London: Routledge), 171-196
2020 “Creation in the Poimandres and in Other Creation Stories,” Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 21/22, 411-421

2019: “Cultural Construction of Ambiguous or Unsanctioned Ritual: Greece,” in: David Frankfurter and Henk Versnel, eds., Ancient Magic (Leiden: Brill)
Ritual in Its Space, in: Wiebke Friese, Søren Handberg and Troels Myrup Kristensen, eds., Ascending and Descending the Acropolis. Movement in Athenian Religion (Aarhus: University Press, 2019) 255-265
Δωδεκαΐς, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 211, 95–96 
“Lead Invocations in Greek Sanctuaries,” in: Matthias Haake and Klaus Freitag, eds., Griechische Heiligtümer als Handlungsorte (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2019), 75-86

2018: “Phantom Travels: On the History of a Lycian Inscription,” in: Antonio Guzman and Javier Martinez, eds., Animo decipiendi (Groningen: Barkhuis, 2018), 291-301
“Travels to the Beyond,” in: Gunnel Ekroth and Ingela Nilsson, eds. Round Trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean Tradition (Leiden: Brill, 2018), 11-36

2017: “Sacred meals in the cults of Isis and Sarapis,” in: David Hellholm and Dieter Sänger, eds., The Eucharist – Its Origins and Contexts, vol. III. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 376 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck), 1747-1760
“Theoi Soteres”, in: Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 18/19, 239-253

2016 “Gold Has Many Uses,” Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 17, 22-32
“The Gods in Ovid’s Fasti,” in: James J. Clauss, Martine Cuypers andAhuvia Kahane, eds., The Gods of Greek Hexameter Poetry. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftlich Beiträge (Stuttgart: Steiner), 353-366

2015: "Comedies and Comic Actors in the Greek East. An Epigraphical Perspective,” in: C.W. Marshall and T. Hawkins, eds., Athenian Comedy in the Roman Empire (Bloomsbury)	
“Early Histories Written in Stone: Epigraphy and Mythical Narratives,” Archiv für Religionswissenschaft 17 

2014 “Laying Down the Law in Ferragosto: The Roman Visit of Theodosius in Summer 389,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 22, 219-242 
“Victimology. Or: How to Deal With Untimely Death.” In: Kimberly Stratton and Dayna Kalleres, eds., Daughters of Hecate.Women and Magic in the Ancient World (Oxford University Press), 386-416

2013 “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
“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
 “Dangerous Dreaming. The Christian Transformation of Dream Incubation, Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 15 (2013), 117-142
“Derveni and Ritual,” in: Ioanna Papadopoulou and Leonard Muellner, eds., Poetry as Initiation. The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus (Hellenic Studies 63), Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press.

2012 “A Satirist’s Sacrifices. Lucian’s On Sacrifices and the Contestation of Religious Traditions,” in: Jennifer Knust and Zsuzsana Várhelyi, eds., Ancient Mediterranean Sacrifice (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press)
“Libanius and John Chrysostom on the Kalendae Ianuariae in Antioch,” in: Archi Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 13 (2011)
“One Generation after Burkert and Girard: Where Are the Great Theories?”, in: Christopher A. Faraone and Fred Naiden, eds., Studies on Greek Sacrifice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) 

2011  “Ritual Restauration and Innovation in the Greek Cities of the Roman Imperium,” in: Angelos Chaniotis et all., eds., Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual (Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz)
“Text and ritual. The Corpus Eschatologicum of the Orphics,” in: Radcliffe G. Edmunds III, The “Orphic” Gold Tablets and Greek Religion. Further Along the Path (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 53-67 .
 “Myth in Christian Authors,” in: Ken Dowden and Niall Livingstone, eds., Companion to Greek Mythology (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell), 319-337
“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), 101-118
“Mysteries, Baptism, and the History of Religious Studies. Some Tentative Remarks,” in: Francesca Prescendi et Youri Volokhine, eds., Dans le laboratoire de l'historien des religions, Mélanges offerts à Philippe Borgeaud (Geneva: Labor et Fides), 91-104
“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), 119-133
“Apollonische Orakel und theologische Spekulation, Zu den Orakeln der Theosophia Tubingensis,” in: Helmut Send and Michel Tardieu, ed., Die Chaldaeischen Orakel: Kontext – Interpretation – Rezeption (Heidelberg: Winter), 63-75 

2010  “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), 95-113
 “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), 301-309
 “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), 55-80.
“The Blessings of Madness,” Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 12, 167-180 

More than 100 earlier papers, reviews and contributions to encyclopedias on Greek and Roman religion, magic and epigraphy (starting in 1970).