Emily Allen-Hornblower’s teachings on tragic heroes resonate with inmates April 6, 2016 by Eric Pereira Allen-Hornblower recently taught a western civilization course at the medium-security Northern State Prison in Newark. Facing a class of 16 men, some incarcerated for decades, Allen-Hornblower presented powerful studies in such works as The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Iliad, and Aristotle’s writings on anger.