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Volume I Spring 2000 Number 1

A Journal of Great Books Curriculum Wright College Student

Research, Inquiry and Opinion

General Editor

Professor Bruce Gans

Editors

Professor Margo Garriepy

Dean of Instruction Donald Barshis

Please direct all inquiries to Professor Bruce Gans. Wright College. Room L372. 4300 N. Narragansett. Chicago, Illinois 60634. Ph: 773 481-8014. Email: bmg1030@earthlink.net.

	Table of Contents Home
	Core Authors List
Bruce Gans	Introduction
	The Ancient World
William Wojtas	A Politically Incorrect Defense of the Athenian Empire
Michael Fortunato	A Moral and Practical Analysis of Military Empires
Joseph Spisak	Just Win, Baby: Nicias, Alcibiades and the Sicilian Expedition
Gabriela Arcan	Good Man, Bad Man, Traitor: Aspects of Alcibiades
Catherine Rodriguez	The Failure of Utopia in Aristophanes’ Assembly of Women
	*The Dark Ages*
Neil A. Lumbowski	It’s All About Respect: Social Codes in Beowulf
	*The Enlightenment*
Diane Tirado	Great Chain of Being in Pope’s “Essay on Man”
	*The Romantic Era*
Jack Wilson	*Dueling Aesthetics: The Poetics of Wordsworth and Coleridge*
	*The Modern Age*
Charles Brown	The Search for Peace in “A Clean Well Lighted Place”
Jeffrey Glenn	Happiness is an Inside Job: Old Man and the Sea
Carol Fosse	Racism in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
Barbara Sherman	Ellison’s Influence and Inspirations for The Invisible Man