Louis Markos
Louis Markos, Professor in English and Scholar in Residence at Houston Christian University, holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities. His 25 books include From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics; From Plato to Christ: How Platonic Thought Shaped the Christian Faith; The Myth Made Fact: Reading Greek and Roman Mythology through Christian Eyes; Apologetics for the 21st Century; and On the Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue with Tolkien and Lewis. He has produced two lecture series with The Great Courses, published 350 book chapters, essays, and reviews, and given well over 300 public lectures in some two dozen states as well as Rome, Oxford, and British Columbia. He is committed to the concept of the Professor as Public Educator and believes that knowledge must not be walled up in the Academy but must be disseminated to all who have ears to hear.