{"id":40343,"date":"2015-10-07T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=40343"},"modified":"2015-10-07T08:00:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T12:00:26","slug":"perkins-observatory-to-hold-astronomy-and-talk-oct-8-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/perkins-observatory-to-hold-astronomy-and-talk-oct-8-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Perkins Observatory to Hold &#8216;Astronomy and&#8230;&#8217; Talk Oct. 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of poetry, Greek and Roman mythology, epic stories, and the beauty of the night are invited to attend Perkins Observatory&#8217;s upcoming &#8220;Astronomy and&#8230;&#8221; presentation.<\/p>\n<p>The Oct. 8 event will feature Donald Lateiner, professor emeritus of humanities\/classics at Ohio Wesleyan University. He will be speaking on &#8220;Astronomy and Astropoetry: The &#8216;Stars&#8217; of Ancient Greek &amp; Roman Epic and Lyric.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lateiner&#8217;s &#8220;Astronomy and&#8221; presentation will be held at 8 p.m. on Oct. 8 at the observatory,\u00a03199 Columbus Pike (U.S. 23).<\/p>\n<p>Tom Burns, director of Perkins Oberservatory, says: &#8220;Don is an dynamic speaker and great human being, who represents the best that Ohio Wesleyan has to offer. His good humor and engaging manner provide me with quite a bit of encouragement when I first started at Ohio Wesleyan 31 years ago. I used to stand outside his classroom and secretly listen to him teach, and say to myself, &#8216;I&#8217;d like to teach like that some day.&#8217; I hope you all can join us for this very special event.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advance tickets for Lateiner&#8217;s \u201cAstronomy\u00a0and\u2026\u201d presentation are $8. Tickets are $2 more if purchased at the door.\u00a0Call\u00a0<a href=\"tel:%28740%29%20363-1257\">(740) 363-1257<\/a>\u00a0for more information and to reserve tickets.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Perkins Observatory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of poetry, Greek and Roman mythology, epic stories, and the beauty of the night are invited to attend Perkins Observatory&#8217;s upcoming &#8220;Astronomy and&#8230;&#8221; presentation. The Oct. 8 event will feature Donald Lateiner, professor emeritus of humanities\/classics at Ohio Wesleyan University. He will be speaking on &#8220;Astronomy and Astropoetry: The &#8216;Stars&#8217; of Ancient Greek &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuswide-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}