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“When Stocking teaches courses on ancient Greek athletics, he’ll often begin by saying to the class: The one thing we all have in common with Ancient Greeks is that we all have bodies—but the question is, are they the same bodies? What Stocking teaches his students, and what readers can learn through this sourcebook, is that people’s experience of our own bodies and their powers has been constructed and radically changed over time. For instance, the warriors in Homer’s Iliad experienced their power not as being centered in their muscles, but in the joints of their knees. The knees had a sanctity in Ancient Greek literature that we have completely lost track of.” Read more...
Michael Joseph Gross, Journalist
