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Fritz Graf
Researcher at Ohio State University
Publications - 40
Citations - 748
Fritz Graf is an academic researcher from Ohio State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Magic (paranormal) & Ancient Greek. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 38 publications receiving 715 citations. Previous affiliations of Fritz Graf include University of Basel.
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Magic in the ancient world
Fritz Graf,Philip Franklin +1 more
TL;DR: Graf as discussed by the authors provides a comprehensive introduction to ancient magic from the 6th century BC to late antiquity, and explores the important types of magic in Greco-Roman antiquity, describing rites and explaining the theory behind them.
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Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets
Fritz Graf,Sarah Iles Johnston +1 more
TL;DR: This article provided the first book-length edition and discussion of these enigmatic texts in English, and their first English translation, which is essential to the study of ancient Greek religion and their role in the mysteries of Dionysus, and presented an outline of the myths concerning the origins of humanity and of the sacred texts that the Greeks ascribed to Orpheus.
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Greek Mythology : An Introduction
Fritz Graf,Thomas Marier +1 more
TL;DR: A revised translation of Fritz Graf's highly acclaimed introduction to Greek mythology offers a chronological account of the principal Greek myths that appear in the surviving literary and artistic sources and concurrently documents the history of interpretation of Greek mythology from the 17th century to the present as discussed by the authors.
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Roman Festivals in the Greek East: From the Early Empire to the Middle Byzantine Era
TL;DR: The persistence of festivals and the end of sacrifices in the Roman Empire are discussed in this article. But the focus is on Roman festivals in Eastern cities and not on the whole Byzantine Empire.