Text taken from La Lettre du Collège de France n° 34, Paris, Collège de France, p. 24, ISSN 1628-2329
The project challenges the well-established idea that the Greeks only began to use these amulets in earnest during the Roman period, when there are many more traces of them. However, Prof. Faraone argues that this supposed increase in superstition is really just an illusion due to the increase in epigraphic practices during the Roman Empire period. In short, we moderns see more amulets in the Roman period because Greek inscriptions on objects make us aware that they were used as amulets. The aim of the research is to show that the Greeks - like the Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Phoenicians, Israelites, Etruscans and Romans - have used uninscribed amulets continuously since the Late Archaic period.