Author Lou Markos writes of his remarkable family’s history:
“America is a nation of immigrants. All four of my grandparents, Fannie, George, Louie, and Maxine, were immigrants who left Greece for America a century ago to start a new life in a new land. Their DNA helped determine my biology and chemistry, even as their stories helped shape my heart and soul. Some of them, and their close relatives, survived World War I and the Russian Revolution, worked on the Panama Canal and built chapels, were scarred by World War II and the Greek Civil War, and fought to retrieve the body of a loved one from a foreign land. But most of them lived ordinary lives with extraordinary courage and perseverance. This book retells the struggles and joys, false starts and happy endings of these four modern Greek heroes, placing each in a literary frame that weaves their stories together with those of such
legendary heroes as Jason, Odysseus, and Antigone. Join me as we travel to an exotic, yet strangely familiar place where the tales and passions of simple immigrants meet and fuse with the tales, the history, and the culture of ancient Greece.”
About the Author:
Louis Markos holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities at Houston Baptist University and is a Professor of English and Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University’s Honors College. He teaches courses on Ancient Greece and Rome, the Early Church and Middle Ages, British Romantic and Victorian Poetry and Prose, the Classics, C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, and Art and Film.
Dr. Markos holds a BA in English and History from Colgate University and an MA and PhD in English from the University of Michigan. He is the author of sixteen books:
