Charles Stocking
Associate Professor of Classics
BA (Stanford), MA (Stanford), PhD (UCLA)
Office: Lawson Hall 3207
Extension: 84521
Email: cstockin@uwo.ca
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
Books:
Homer’s Iliad and the Problem of Force. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
Ancient Greek Athletics: Primary Sources in Translation. Co-authored with Susan Stephens. Oxford University Press, 2021.
A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity. Co-edited with Paul Christesen. Bloomsbury Press, 2021.
The Politics of Sacrifice in Early Greek Myth and Poetry. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Articles and Book Chapters:
“Minds, Bodies, and Identity.” A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity. Eds. Paul Christesen and Charles Stocking. Bloomsbury Press, 2021: 159-178.
“The ‘Paris School’ and the ‘Structuralist Invasion’ in North America.” Cahiers mondes anciens. Qu'est-ce que faire école ? Regards sur « l'école de Paris ». Ed. F. de Polignac. 2020.
“Athletic Competition.” The Cambridge Guide to Homer. Eds. Corrine Pache, Susan Lupack, Robert Lamberton, and Casey Dué. Cambridge University Press, 2020: 296-299.
“The Allure and Ethics of Ancient Aesthetics: Hellenism and the Modern Olympics.” The Allure of Sports in Western Cultures. Ed. John Zilcoski and Marlo A Burks. University of Toronto Press, 2019: 119-142.
“Theorizing with Hesiod: Freudian Constructs and Structuralism” with S. Scully. Oxford Handbook of Hesiod. Eds. Stephen Scully and Alexander Loney. Oxford University Press, 2018.
“Hesiod in Paris: Justice, Truth, and Power between Past and Present.” Arethusa 50.3 (2017): 385-427.
“The Use and Abuse of Training ‘Science’ in Philostratus’ Gymnasticus.” Classical Antiquity 35.1 (2016): 86-165.
“Ages of Athletes: Generational Decline in Philostratus’ Gymnasticus and Archaic Greek Poetry.” Classics@ Issue 13: Greek Poetry and Sport. 2015. Edited by Thomas Scanlon.
“Greek Ideal as Hyperreal: Greco-Roman Sculpture and the Athletic Male Body.” Arion 21.3 (2014): 45-74.
“Sacrifice, Succession, and Paternity in Hesiod’s Theogony.” Mètis. Anthropologie des mondes grecs anciens 11 (2013): 183-210.
“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.
Presentations
Symposium Co-Organizer: Sport Society and Culture. Olympia and the Struggle for Freedom. Co-sponsored by the International Olympic Academy and the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, Olympia Greece. October 2021.
“Running for Freedom: Greece and the Meaning of the Marathon.” Sport, Society and Culture. Olympia and the Struggle for Freedom. Co-sponsored by the International Olympic Academy and the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, Olympia Greece. October 2021.
“Boxing for Blood: Violent Sport and High Culture in a Roman Mosaic.” Getty Villa, Malibu CA. June 18, 2021.
Panel Organizer: “Foucault and Antiquity: Beyond Sexuality.” Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting, Washington DC, Jan. 2020.
“Foucault and the Funeral Games” for Foucault and Antiquity panel. Jan. 2020, Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting, Washington DC, Jan. 2020.
“Power and Personhood in Homer, Reconsidered.” A Prehistory for Posthumanism? Antiquity and Anthropology Today. Roundtable, Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, April 2019.
“Force and Discourse in the Funeral Games of Patroclus.” University of Toronto Department of Classics Literature and Philology Seminar Series, Dec. 4 2018.
“Kratos before Democracy: Force, Politics, and Signification in Homer and Derrida.” Classical Reception Seminar Series. Cambridge University, UK. May 22, 2018.
Pouvoir et la poétique de l’agôn en Grèce archaïque. Quatre conférence à EHESS, Paris. May 2018.
Panel Co-Organizer with Donald Lavigne: Return to Philology? Celtic Conference in Classics, McGill University. Montréal, QC. July 2017.
“Individual Sports, Amateurism, and the University.” Filmed Interview. Sport and the University, Stanford University. Stanford, CA. August 2016.
“The Uses of Universal Hellenism.” Sport, Society, and Culture. Center for Hellenic Studies and the International Olympic Academy. Olympia, Greece. July 2016.
“Ancient Greece and the Cult of the Body in Western Civilization.” The Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, Texas Tech University. Lubbock, TX. April 2016.
“Beyond Limit Experience in Ancient Athletics.” Olympics, Ancient and Modern. Texas Tech University. Lubbock, TX. April 2016.
“Stronger: The Problematics of Power in Homeric Poetry. Department of Classics, University ofChicago. Chicago, IL. February 2016.
“Athletics and Education in Ancient Greece.” Filmed Interview. Sport and the University, Stanford University. Stanford, CA. January 2016.
“Kratos before Democracy: The Problem of Plurality.” Political Cultures, Erotic Culture-Gendered Politics in Ancient Societies. UCLA. Los Angeles, CA. January 2016.
Panel Organizer with Paul Christesen: Ancient Athletics and the Modern Olympics: History, Ideals, and Ideology. Society for Classical Studies. San Francisco, CA. January 2016.
“The Aesthetics of Hellenism in the Modern Olympics.” Panel: Ancient Athletics and the Modern Olympics: History, Ideals, and Ideology. Society for Classical Studies. San Francisco, CA. January 2016.
“How to Kill an Athlete: The Limits of Excellence, Ancient and Modern.” Sport, Society, and Culture. Center for Hellenic Studies and the International Olympic Academy. Olympia, Greece. July 2015.
“The Poetics of Sacrifice and the Anthropology of Feasting.” Invited lecture in the seminar of François de Polignac, Religion et institutions dans le monde grec. ANHIMA. Paris, France. April 2015.
“Ritual Relations and Performative Kinship in Archaic and Classical Greece.” Invited lecture in the seminar of Cléo M. Carastro, Anthropologie religieuse et histoire culturelle de la Grèce ancienne. ANHIMA. Paris, France. April 2015.
