- Introduction to Course
- Sophia, agōn, paideia, pathos (introductory readings)
- Geographical, Historical Overview
- Second Sophistic: Introductory Readings
- Philostratus Lives of the Sophists
- Fable Readings
- Fable Project, Continued
- Athletics and agōn in the Greco-Roman East
- Citizen-Sponsored Public Works in the Roman East
- Sophia and the Art — and Science — of Networking
- Sociality, Emotion, agōn
- Encomium and Figured Rhetoric
- Daphnis and Chloe 1
- Daphnis and Chloe 2
- Picture This: The Art (and Rhetoric) of Ekphrasis
- Daphnis and Chloe 3
- Final summing up
