Charles Stocking
Assistant Professor of Classics
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BA Stanford, MA Stanford, PhD University of California Los Angeles
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Special Interests:
Archaic and Classical Greek Literature especially Greek Epic; Greek Religion; Ancient Athletics; Gender and the Body in Greece and Rome; Classics and Critical Theory
Current Teaching (2012-2013):
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CS 3904F: Ancient Tricksters, Global Perspectives MWF (11:30-12:30)
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Gk 3100A: Greek Prose Selections MWF (9:30-10:30)
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Greek 9902A: Greeks Bearing Gifts: Value and the Problems of Gift Exchange in Greek Literature Tu (2:30-4:30)
Current Projects:
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Sacrifice and the Politics of the Belly: Ritual, Gender, and Ideology in Archaic and Classical Greece
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The Wisdom of Sport: A Critical Edition, Translation, and Commentary of Philostratus Peri Gymnastiks.
(In Preparation)
Publications:
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The Language about Achilles: Linguistic Frame Theory and the Formula in Homeric Poetics." A Californian Hymn to Homer. Ed. Timothy Pepper. Washington, D.C.: Harvard University Press, 2010.
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Genealogy, Gender, and Sacrifice in Hesiods Theogony. Mtis. Anthropologie des mondes grecs anciens.(Forthcoming)
Presentations:
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Greek Ideal or Hyperreal? The Athletic Body Throughout History. March 2012. Visualizing Antiquity. Victoria, BC Canada.
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Anger and Honorary Shares: The Promethean Division Revisited. March 2012. Sacrifice in the Ancient World. Los Angeles, CA.
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Anger, Kingship, and the Primordial Politics of Emotion in Ancient Greece.
Life! Motive, Motions, Emotions. November 2011.
Renaissance of the Passions Conference. Los Angeles, CA. -
Consumption and Cultural Contact in Bronze Age Mycenae. July 2010.
Guest Lecture for D.E.P.A.S. Field School. Mycenae, Greece. -
Sacrifice, Tricksters, and the Politics of the Belly. March 2010.
Guest Lecture. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX. -
Return to Sender: Failed Reciprocity in Ancient Greek Religion. March, 2010, Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Oklahoma City, OK.
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Hesiod, Sacrifice, and the Tactics of Consumption. January 2010,
American Philological Association Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA. -
Aesthetic Conflict and Dramatic Resolution: Discursive and Presentational Symbolism within Aristophanes Frogs. February 2005, (Ir)Rationality in Antiquity. Victoria, BC Canada.
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Tupac Shakur: Hip-Hop Hyperculture and the Postmodern Hero."
March 2004, SISS Image of the Hero Conference.
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From Muthos to Myth: Narrative Scripts as a Mechanism of Authority in the Homeric Poems and Beyond." March 2003, International Narrative Conference. Berkeley, CA.
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