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  • Keywords
    • Tomb of Agamemnon,
    • 1974 Cypriot coup d’état,
    • Turkish invasion of Cyprus,
    • Cypriot immigrants,
    • Heinrich Schliemann,
    • Henry Kissinger,
    • Archbishop Makarios III

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A Man in the Mask
by Charles Young


In 1876 Heinrich Schliemann stunned the world with his announcement that he had discovered the tomb of Agamemnon in Mycenae, Greece. My grandfather, a refugee from Cyprus worked for Schliemann. Among the dignitaries from all countries that flocked to the site to examine Schliemann’s discovery, my grandfather alone refuted Schliemann’s claim. The locals in the village were incensed, ready to lynch my grandfather, who was forced to flee the country. In America my grandfather engaged in a number of successful small businesses, always dreaming of returning to Cyprus. It never happened. Ultimately, he wound up in Indiana with my father, who was the town physician. In Indiana my grandfather became a buffer between myself, a dark skinned anomaly in a community of bullying, blond Germanic rednecks. Without my grandfather to lead me to and from school each day, I would not have made it through kindergarten. This security ended with the death of my grandfather. Fate, however, intervened with the arrival in town of the Twitam family and a Cyprus connection that would lead me back to my grandfather’s homeland and the true story of the man behind the golden mask.


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Charles Young was born in New Britain, Connecticut. After finishing high school in 1943,he entered a naval program at Harvard University. He later served in the Marine Corps during the battle for Okinawa in World War II. Following the war, he attended Central Connecticut State University and later transferred to Columbia University where he received a BA and an MA. He then spent a year in a PhD program at Yale University. In 1967 he moved to Athens, Greece, with his wife Marcie and their three children, Tina, Fay, and Charles. There he taught at Athens College. In 1978, following the death of his wife, he moved to the island of Hydra, pursued his writing and taught at the National Maritime Academy.


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