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.
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.
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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. |