2025 Workshop Talk | | Literature
Summary
Dante’s Divine Comedy presents a perfectly ordered, innately poetic cosmos of exquisite beauty, balance, and harmony. Join me as we journey, along with Dante, from Hell to Purgatory to Paradise.
Speaker
Dr. Louis Markos holds a B. A. in English and history from Colgate University and an M. A. and Ph. D. in English from the University of Michigan. He is a professor of English and scholar-in-residence at Houston Christian (formerly Houston Baptist) University, where he holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities and teaches courses on British Romantic and Victorian poetry and prose, the classics, C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, and art and film. He is the author of twenty-five books, including The Myth Made Fact; From Plato to Christ; From Achilles to Christ; On the Shoulders of Hobbits; Ancient Voices: An Insider’s Look at the Early Church; Literature: A Student’s Guide; C. S. Lewis: An Apologist for Education; three Canon Press Worldview Guides to the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid; and two children’s novels, The Dreaming Stone and In the Shadow of Troy, in which his kids become part of Greek mythology and the Iliad and Odyssey. His son Alex teaches history at the Geneva School in Boerne, TX. IVP Academic will shortly be publishing his Passing the Torch: The Case for Classical Christian Education.
Additional Materials
The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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