Enrolments are now open for Spring evening classes starting the week of Monday 5 September 2022. For those new to Plato and Philosophy, try Reading Plato: an introduction to philosophy from Tuesday 6 September [BOOKINGS CLOSED]. If you have ever wanted to read Plato’s Republic from cover to cover, then Read more…
| Study tour | 9.30 – 11.30 am, Saturday 13 August | Departing St Patrick’s Cathedral, East Melbourne | Current & former students welcome (+1 friend/family) | Restricted numbers: RSVP essential for attendance | We have something special for our Winter term break-up. One of our students, Arthur Andronas, has Read more…
The myth of the Virgin mother of God becoming the bride of her Son came up as an aside in Platonism and Christianity class this week. It is similar to other creation myths that also invoke the necessary reflexivity of monotheistic creationism. But this particular myth of the highest heavenly incest has such an exceptional beauty that it was often lovingly portrayed by medieval and Renaissance artists, and yet it is almost forgotten these days.
This Christian mother-wife myth is preserved in The Golden Legend as Ch 119, The Assumption of the Virgin. Find it in the Ryan translation from page 464 to 468.
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