Campbell Bonner


Campbell Bonner was an American classicist notable for his research of amulets and ancient popular religion and superstitions of the late Graeco-Roman pagan and early Christian world. He was elected to the American [Academy of Arts and Sciences] in 1933 and the American Philosophical Society in 1938.

Publications

  • "The Danaid Myth," TAPA 31 27-36
  • "A Study of the Danaid Myth," HSCP 13 129-73
  • "Dionysiac Magic and the Greek Land of Cockaigne," TAPA 41 175-85
  • "The Prenuptial Rite in the Aetia of Callimachus," CP 6 402-9
  • "The Sacred Bond," TAPA 44 233-45
  • "A Papyrus Describing Magical Powers," TAPA 52 111-8
  • "A Papyrus of Dioscurides in the University of Michigan Collection," TAPA 53 142-68
  • "Traces of Thaumaturgic Technique in the Miracles," HThR 20 171-81
  • "The Numerical Value of a Magical Formula," JEA 16 6-9
  • "Note on the Paris Magical Papyrus," CP 25 180-3
  • "Demons of the Bath," in Studies Presented to F.L.C. Griffith : 203ff.
  • "Witchcraft in the Lecture Room of Libanius," TAPA 63 34-44
  • "Liturgical Fragments on Gnostic Amulets," HThR 25 362-7
  • A Papyrus Codex of the Shepherdof Hermas
  • "A Supplement to Preisendanz' 'Amuletum Ineditum'," BNGJhb 9 375-6
  • "An Ikon of St. Demetrius," AJA 47 63-77
  • "Pallados and Jewish Reflections upon the Beginning of Man," JAOS 55 196-9
  • The Last Chapters of Enoch in Greek with the collaboration of H. C. Youtie
  • "Two Curse Tablets from Beisan" with H. C. Youtie, TAPA 68 43–77, 128
  • "Some Phases of Religious Feeling in Later Paganism," HThR 30 119-40
  • "Hades and the Pomegranate Seed,'* CR 53 3-4
  • The Homily on the Passion by Melito, Bishop of Sardis
  • "A New Historical Fragment," TAPA 72 26-35
  • "Two Studies in Syncretistic Amulets," PAPS 85 466-71
  • "Aeolus figured on Colic Amulets," HThR 35 87-93
  • "The Techniques of Exorcism," HThR 36 39–49; and "Correction," HThR 37 334ff.
  • "An Obscure Inscription on a Gold Tablet," Hesperia 13 36-55
  • "The Philinna Papyrus and the Gold Tablet from the Vigna Codini," Hesperia 13 349-51
  • Studies in Magical Amulets, Chiefly Graeco-Egyptian
  • "A Reminiscence of Paul on a Coin Amulet," HThR 43 165-8
  • "Amulets Chiefly in the British Museum," Hesperia 20 301-45
  • "A Magical Inscription on a Chalcedony," with H. C. Youtie, TAPA 84 60-6
  • "Two Notes," JEA 40 15-8
  • "A Miscellany of Engraved Stones," Hesperia 23 138-57 and plates 34-6
  • "A Note on Method in the Treatment of Magical Inscriptions," AJP 75 303–5.