Learn the ancient stories of the stars in our star dome theater.
Three Tuesday evenings 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
May 7, 14, and 21
Eagled-eyed Helius Hyperion spied lusty Ares entangled with flighty Aphrodite and hastened to tell all to the cantankerous and cuckolded furnace churner Hephaestus who, once apprised of the love goddess’ infidelity, then ensnared his faithless wife and her pretty paramour in a bronze net where they, shamefaced and sans apparel, were set in full and open display before a Pantheon of bemused gods, most of whom snickered to themselves, but secretly regarded crimson-tinted Ares with a envy that burned so hot it could have reduced an entire continent to ashes.
And, you can bet your bottom drachma, ladies and gentlemen, that we won’t spin that charming yarn during the Southworth Planetarium’s “Celestial Mythology” courses. We have wrung out the prurient and unseemly aspects of Celestial mythology, leaving only the sagas, adventures, monsters, mayhem, quests, gods, goddesses, winged horses, -and other zoological impossibilities- and those tortured heroes who slumber miserably in their thrones tormented by the type of existential angst that only seems to beset those guys cursed with washboard abs and universal adoration.
Although some sour-souled types insist that the age of heroes, heroines and sorcery has gone the way of the abacus, we know differently. The ancient sagas retold in runes and imprinted on scrolls still unfold every single night in the sky above. The constellations adorning our light polluted skies are the same patterns that inspired the epic poems of Homer, Ovid and so many others. Although the stars are moving at a rapid clip around the galaxy, the constellations of which they are composed remain scarcely changed even after the lapse of millennia.
Join us on May 7, 14 and 21st from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. to explore the rich tapestry of the mythological night sky.
Walk in registrations are welcome!
Doors open at 6:00 p.m.
Cost: $100.00 – adult; $85.00 – child/senior