{"id":3922,"date":"2016-03-18T17:50:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T00:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i81.a52.mywebsitetransfer.com\/?p=3922"},"modified":"2017-08-08T04:01:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T11:01:16","slug":"upcoming-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=3922","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Wars\/Modern Vets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many great events scheduled for the Millbrook Literary Festival.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Veterans-Panel-Flier.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3923\" title=\"Veterans Panel Flier\" src=\"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Veterans-Panel-Flier-617x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Veterans-Panel-Flier-617x800.jpg 617w, https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Veterans-Panel-Flier-115x150.jpg 115w, https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Veterans-Panel-Flier-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Veterans-Panel-Flier.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>In this ninety-minute illustrated presentation, Peter Meineck offers short readings from contemporary translations of ancient texts to elucidate the connections between the experience of the American veteran community and the ancient Greeks and Romans. Participants will be asked to relate their own stories to the ancient material and together will explore themes such as coming home, democracy and war, women at war, the ethics of war and the relationships between veterans and civilians.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ps-name\">Peter Meineck, Clinical Professor of Classics, New York University; Founder &amp; Board Member, Aquila Theatre.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class='fb-like'><iframe src='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=3922&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=260&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' allowTransparency='true' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:260px; height:26px'><\/iframe><\/p><fb:share-button href=\"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=3922\" type=\"box_count\"><\/fb:share-button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many great events scheduled for the Millbrook Literary Festival. In this ninety-minute illustrated presentation, Peter Meineck offers short readings from contemporary translations of ancient texts to elucidate the connections between the experience of the American veteran community and the ancient Greeks and Romans. Participants will be asked to relate their own stories &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=3922\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ancient Wars\/Modern Vets&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lectures-and-panels","category-literature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3922"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4090,"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions\/4090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}