1. Second Sophistic: Introductory Readings

2. A question…

3. How Was Sophistic an Agōn
Alexander and Helix, champion pancratiasts. Ostia Antica, Italy. Between 210 and 235 CE

4. Another question…

5. Figure Skating: Thoughts?

6. Yet another question…

7. Is This What You Had in Mind?

8. Tonya and Pierre Bourdieu
Field
Competitive figure skating
Habitus
Home-made costumes (early)
Athleticism versus “artistry”
Capital
Financial (poverty)
Cultural (down-market)
ZZ-Top instead of Tchaikovsky
2nd Sophistic: Intro Readings
25-jan 2018

9. Sophists and Pierre Bourdieu
Field
Rhetoric/sophistic
Habitus
Outfits
Bearing
Performance
etc.
Capital
Birth
Wealth
Education
Prestige
Sophist, Ephesus
how might that be agonistic?
2nd Sophistic: Intro Readings
25-jan 2018

10. Further Questions What was sophistic?
What were sophists?
What did they do?
Why would anyone have gone in for that?
Sophist, Ephesus
Why would anyone have devoted the kind of time and money that sophists did to acquire paideia, and why would they, among other forms of display, have deployed paideia in the sort of play-acting (on the face of it, rather silly at times) that second-sophistic declamation often was? Where was the "value-added"?
2nd Sophistic: Intro Readings
25-jan 2018

11. Agenda Preliminary question Recap and Update What Was Sophistic?
How was sophistic an agōn?
Recap and Update
The Geography of Sophistic (map work follow-up)
What Was Sophistic?
What Did Sophists Do?
Heuresis, auxēsis Take 2
Anti-Lucian Vade Mecum
2nd Sophistic: Intro Readings
25-jan 2018

12. Recap and Update The Geography of Sophistic (map work follow-up)

13. What Was Sophistic? What Did Sophists Do? terms
discussion intensive. form groups, pool notes, share with class. in filling in these blanks, please try to cite specific instances in texts (and cite texts, too.) we’ll go though each of those texts. here also is where I’ll try to clarify any questions you might have. including the tech terms:

14. 2nd-Soph. Readings: Student Notes
terms
Whitmarsh
man who goes to peers to win respect
spectator sport
personalities like sports figures
Anderson
more in depth about performance
mannerisms, delivery
pre-performance: the gearing up
epic-heroic evocations
Lucian
exercise a tyranny over audience
Anderson quoting Lucian
wild talk, flatters audience and self
2nd Sophistic: Intro Readings
25-jan 2018

15. Heuresis, auxēsis Take 2
Anti-Lucian Vade Mecum

16. Heuresis Fact Definition Quality Policy https://goo.gl/jDlifx
Is there a problem/issue?
Definition
What is the issue?
What are its parts, how are they related?
Quality
Is it a good thing or a bad thing?
How serious is the problem/issue?
Whom might it affect?
Policy
What should be done?
2nd Sophistic: Intro Readings
25-jan 2018

17. Auxēsis (rhetorical elaboration)