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Boethius. Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, [6] [note 1] commonly known simply as Boethius ( / boʊˈiːθiəs /; Latin: Boetius; c. 480–524 AD), was a Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, polymath, historian, and philosopher of the Early Middle Ages. He was a central figure in the translation of the Greek classics into Latin, a ...
Apr 17, 2024 · Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius was a Roman scholar, Christian philosopher, and statesman, author of the celebrated De consolatione philosophiae (Consolation of Philosophy), a largely Neoplatonic work in which the pursuit of wisdom and the love of God are described as the true sources of human
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May 6, 2005 · Anicius Severinus Manlius Boethius was born into the Roman aristocracy c. 475–7 C.E.—about the same time as the last Roman Emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was deposed (August 476). Boethius lived most of his life under the rule of Theoderic, an Ostrogoth educated at Constantinople, who was happy to let the old families keep up their traditions ...
Boethius was a Roman scholar and politician who translated and commented on Greek philosophy and theology in the sixth century AD. He wrote The Consolation of Philosophy, a masterpiece of Western literature, and influenced medieval logic and science.
Learn about Boethius, a sixth-century Roman philosopher who wrote the influential Consolation of Philosophy in prison. Find out how Chaucer translated and adapted his work, and explore some key passages and themes.
Boethius , in full Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, (born ad 470–475?, Rome—died 524, Pavia?), Roman scholar, Christian philosopher, and statesman. Born to a patrician family, he became consul in 510 and subsequently chief minister to the Ostrogothic king Theodoric.
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Biography. Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius came from the family of Anicii who had been Christians for around 100 years. He became an orphan when he was about seven years old when his father, who became consul in 487, died soon afterwards. Boethius was brought up in the house of the aristocratic family of Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus.
