Campbell Bonner

Campbell Bonner (30 January 1876 – 11 July 1954)[1] 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.[2] He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1933 and the American Philosophical Society in 1938.[3][4]

Campbell Bonner
Born(1876-01-30)January 30, 1876
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
DiedJuly 11, 1954(1954-07-11) (aged 78)
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
Spouse
Ethel Howell
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(m. 1903)​
ParentJudge Jesse Willis & Frances Campbell B.
Academic background
Education
ThesisDe Danaidibus commentatio (1900)
Academic work
DisciplineClassical studies
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan

Publications
  • "The Danaid Myth," TAPA 31 (1900) 27-36
  • "A Study of the Danaid Myth," HSCP 13 (1902) 129-73
  • "Dionysiac Magic and the Greek Land of Cockaigne," TAPA 41 (1910) 175-85
  • "The Prenuptial Rite in the Aetia of Callimachus," CP 6 (1911) 402-9
  • "The Sacred Bond," TAPA 44 (1913) 233-45
  • "A Papyrus Describing Magical Powers," TAPA 52 (1921) 111-8
  • "A Papyrus of Dioscurides in the University of Michigan Collection," TAPA 53 (1922) 142-68
  • "Traces of Thaumaturgic Technique in the Miracles," HThR 20 (1927) 171-81
  • "The Numerical Value of a Magical Formula," JEA 16 (1930) 6-9
  • "Note on the Paris Magical Papyrus," CP 25 (1930) 180-3
  • "Demons of the Bath," in Studies Presented to F.L.C. Griffith (London, 1932): 203ff.
  • "Witchcraft in the Lecture Room of Libanius," TAPA 63 (1932) 34-44
  • "Liturgical Fragments on Gnostic Amulets," HThR 25 (1932) 362-7
  • A Papyrus Codex of the Shepherdof Hermas (Ann Arbor, 1933)
  • "A Supplement to Preisendanz' 'Amuletum Ineditum'," BNGJhb 9 (1933) 375-6
  • "An Ikon of St. Demetrius," AJA 47 (1934) 63-77
  • "Pallados and Jewish Reflections upon the Beginning of Man," JAOS 55 (1935) 196-9
  • The Last Chapters of Enoch in Greek with the collaboration of H. C. Youtie (London & Toronto, 1937)
  • "Two Curse Tablets from Beisan" with H. C. Youtie, TAPA 68 (1937) 43–77, 128
  • "Some Phases of Religious Feeling in Later Paganism," HThR 30 (1937) 119-40
  • "Hades and the Pomegranate Seed (Hymn to Demeter 372-4),'* CR 53 (1939) 3-4
  • The Homily on the Passion by Melito, Bishop of Sardis (London & Philadelphia, 1940)
  • "A New Historical Fragment," TAPA 72 (1941) 26-35
  • "Two Studies in Syncretistic Amulets," PAPS 85 (1942) 466-71
  • "Aeolus figured on Colic Amulets," HThR 35 (1942) 87-93
  • "The Techniques of Exorcism," HThR 36 (1943) 39–49; and "Correction," HThR 37 (1944) 334ff.
  • "An Obscure Inscription on a Gold Tablet," Hesperia 13 (1944) 36-55
  • "The Philinna Papyrus and the Gold Tablet from the Vigna Codini," Hesperia 13 (1944) 349-51
  • Studies in Magical Amulets, Chiefly Graeco-Egyptian (Ann Arbor, 1950)
  • "A Reminiscence of Paul on a Coin Amulet," HThR 43 (1950) 165-8
  • "Amulets Chiefly in the British Museum," Hesperia 20 (1951) 301-45
  • "A Magical Inscription on a Chalcedony," with H. C. Youtie, TAPA 84 (1953) 60-6
  • "Two Notes," JEA 40 (1954) 15-8
  • "A Miscellany of Engraved Stones," Hesperia 23 (1954) 138-57 and plates 34-6
  • "A Note on Method in the Treatment of Magical Inscriptions," AJP 75 (1954) 303–5.

References
  1. Smith, Morton. "BONNER, Campbell". Rutgers Database of Classical Scholars. Archived from the original on 2019-05-26. Retrieved 2021-08-13.
  2. "The Campbell Bonner Collection". The Art and Science of Healing: From Antiquity to the Renaissance. 2017. Archived from the original on 2020-08-09. Retrieved 2021-08-13.
  3. "Campbell Bonner". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 2023-02-09. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
  4. "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-05-17.


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