Articles

Stocking, C. (In Press). “Homer’s Contest as Nietzsche’s Contest over Hellenism.” In M. Telo (Ed.) The Philology of the Future: Essays on Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Theory. London: Bloomsbury.

Stocking, C. (2024). “Book 20.” In J. Ready (Ed), Oxford Critical Guide to the Iliad (230-239). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Stocking, C. (2021). “Ancient Greece, the Olympic Revival, and the Modern Student Athlete.” In D. Gangas and K. Georgiadis (Eds), Looking towards the Future with Hope: 60th IOA Anniversary (96-107).Olympia, Greece: International Olympic Academy.

Stocking, C. (2020). “The ‘Paris School’ and the ‘Structuralist Invasion’ in North America.” Cahiers mondes anciens 13, 1-16.

Stocking, C. (2019). “The Allure and Ethics of Ancient Aesthetics: Hellenism and the Modern Olympics.” In J. Zilcoski & M.A. Burks (Eds.), The Allure of Sports in Western Cultures (119-142). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Stocking, C. (2016). “The Use and Abuse of Training ‘Science’ in Philostratus’ Gymnasticus.” Classical Antiquity 35(1), 86-165.

Stocking, C. (2014). “Greek Ideal as Hyperreal: Greco-Roman Sculpture and the Athletic Male Body.” Arion 21(3), 45-74.

Media

Men’s Health (March 2025 issue). “The Ancient Greek Guide to Future-Proofing Your Posture. One powerlifter academic may have found a way to build lifelong, full-body strength and stability in a very old and rare source” by Michael Joseph Gross.

Gross, M. J. (forthcoming) “Mr. Olympia: When the Ancient Greeks looked at human muscle,they saw something different than we do.” American Scholar. [Interview in the article]

Gross, M. J. (March 2025) Stronger: The Untold Story of Muscle in our Lives. Dutton.Interviews with Charles Stocking and his research featured in chapters 1-3, pp.

“Individual Sports, Amateurism, and the University.” August 2016. Filmed Interview.Sport and the University, Stanford University.