Ancient Greek Athletics: Primary Sources in Translation

About Charles H. StockingSusan A. Stephens

Charles H. Stocking is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Western University. His work focuses broadly on poetics religion and embodiment in antiquity and modernity with publications including The Politics of Sacrifice in Early Greek Myth and Poetry (Cambridge 2017) The Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity (Bloomsbury 2021) along with numerous articles ranging from Homeric poetics to the advent of modern bodybuilding. Prior to becoming a professor of Classics Charles Stocking was an NCAA Division 1 Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Athletics Department at UCLA where he trained multiple collegiate and Olympic athletes. Susan A. Stephens is Sara Hart Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics at Stanford University. Trained as a papyrologist her work includes contributions to the Oxyrhynchus Papyri Yale Papyri in the Beineke Library (1985) and Ancient Greek Novels: The Fragments co-authored with Jack Winkler (Princeton 1995). Subsequent scholarship has focused on the political and social context of early Alexandrian writers. Books include Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria (Berkeley and Los Angeles 2003) Callimachus: The Hymns (Oxford 2015) and The Poets of Alexandria (Bloomsbury 2018) as well as numerous articles on Callimachus Theocritus Apollonius and Posidippus. Recent work has focused on the politics of Greek athletics in the Hellenistic and Roman periods.