Symposium: Great Books Student Scholarly Journal
Symposium
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.
| 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 |