Schedule of Assign­ments

Current as of 17 May, 2023 (though still a work in progress)

Assignments due by beginning of class on indicated days. Subject to change at instructor's discretion.

Introduction to Course
17-Jan No assignment. Introduction to course. Academic honesty.
19-Jan Skill, contest, culture, emotion (sophia, agōn, paideia, pathos).

For assignment specifics, plus the "Quiz Response Prompt" (really, a personal journal entry), see the 19-Jan Study guide, itself required reading.

24-Jan Historical-geographical overview.

Reading-writing-reference work for hands-on intro to our times and places. Based on assigned readings and additional research as per study guide, which see for all links and instructions.

26-Jan Second sophistic: introductory readings.

Text access, assignment details, Quiz Response Prompt, general introduction: see Study Guide.

31-Jan Philostratus Lives of the Sophists.

See Study Guide for text access, assigned pages, Quiz Response Prompt.

2-Feb Fable readings.

For assigned readings, 2-Feb Quiz Response Prompt, etc., see the Study Guide.

7-Feb Fable Project, Practice.
  • Regarding 7-Feb Journal Entries, please note that we'e looking not for a summary (a psilos logos) of the frog-phone fable, but for a 300-word re-elaboration of the summary (skeleton, psilos logos) we've already got. Does it have to be frogs and phones? No, not really. It does, though, have to connect recognizably with the essential elements of the original tale. But frogginess isn't essential. More on the Study Guide.

Review:

Read new:

Do 7-Feb Quiz Response Prompt (fable practice), as per Fable Study Guide.

9-Feb Athletics and agōn in the Greco-Roman East. Readings access, Quiz Response Prompt via Study Guide.
Fables, oral-written. See Brightspace course site for schedule of in-class presentations: who presents when.
14-Feb Fables day 1.
Summary of procedures: Upload full text of presentation script, version 1, to Brightspace > Assignments > Encomia 1 as per progumnasmata page no later than morning of presentation. Revised document (submission 2) due via Brightspace no later than nine (9) days after time of presentation.
16-Feb Fables day 2.
See above, 14-Feb for summary of procedures.
21-Feb Fables day 3.
See above, 14-Feb for summary of procedures.
23-Feb Citizen-sponsored public works in the Roman East.

For Quiz Response Prompt, assigned readings, and readings access, see Study Guide.

28-Feb Sophia and the Art — and Science — of Networking

For assigned readings, Response Prompt, etc., see the Study Guide.

2-Mar No class (winter break)
7-Mar Sociality, Emotion, and agōn in the Roman East. See Study Guide for assigned readings, readings access, Quiz Response Prompt.
9-Mar Encomium (praise rhetoric) and figured rhetoric. See Study Guide for assigned readings, readings access, Quiz Response Prompt.
14-Mar Midterm exam on materials studied 17-Jan through 23-Feb. Study Guide.

Note that the midterm, though scheduled for 14-Mar, only covers material through 23-Feb. Also, the 7-Feb (fables practice) and 14-21 Feb (fable presentations) won't be addressed by this test.

Figured encomia. See Brightspace course site > "Content" for schedule of in-class presentations: who presents when.
16-Mar Encomia, day 1.
21-Mar Encomia day 2. Uploads as per above.
23-Mar Encomia day 3. Ditto.
28-Mar Encomia day 4. Ditto.
30-Mar What's Love Got to Do with It? Longus Daphnis and Chloe day one. See Study Guide for assigned readings, readings access, Quiz Response prompts.
4-Apr No class (spring break)
6-Apr No class (spring break)
11-Apr Daphnis & Chloe day two. See Study Guide for assigned readings, readings access, Quiz Response prompts.
13-Apr Picture This: The Art (and Rhetoric) of Ekphrasis. See Study Guide for assigned readings, readings access, Quiz Response prompt.
18-Apr Daphnis & Chloe day three. See Study Guide for assigned readings and Quiz Response prompt.
Ekphrasis. See Brightspace course site > "Content" for schedule of in-class presentations: who presents when.
20-Apr Ekphrasis oral presentations day 1.

EKPHRASIS SUBMISSION 2 NEEDS TO BE UPLOADED WITHIN NINE (9) WORKING, NON-VACATION DAYS OF MY "PUBLISHING" (making avilable) MY COMMENTS (not similarity report, that's plagiarism detection). Working = Monday through Friday. Reading days and exam period do not count as vacation.

25-Apr Ekphrasis day 2.
27-Apr Ekphrasis day 3.
2-May No class (Friday classes meet)
4-May Final summing up. Study the Final Exam Study Guide.
11-May Final exam. 12:50-2:50pm, CW (Classroom Wing) 326. Study Guide.

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