Charles H. Stocking is an assistant professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Western Ontario. He has published multiple articles on the interaction of ritual, politics, and the body in Greek literature and culture in journals such as Mètis, Arion, and Classical Antiquity. He has received fellowships with the Classics in Contemporary Perspectives Initiative at the University of South Carolina and with the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, and he is currently an associate member with the research group ANHIMA (Anthropologie et histoire des mondes antiques) in Paris.

• Introduction: the paradox of sacrifice and the politics of feasting; 1. Anger and honorary shares: the Promethean division revisited; 2. Sacrifice, succession, and the politics of patriarchy; 3. The desire of a God: semiotic sacrifice and patriarchal identity in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes; 4. Cities where men sacrifice: Odysseus returns to the fatherland; Conclusion: sacrificial narrative and the politics of the belly.

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