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The Consolation of Philosophy

The Consolation of Philosophy

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Product Code:
224-01
ISBN
954-321-195-7
SKU
20.0013
Year
19-12-2005
Translation
from Latin: Boryana Katzarska
Pages
152
Size
130/200 мм
Weight
0.14 kg
Collection
Колекция "Christiana"
Cover Type
Paperback
Genre
Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Тheology, Christianity

Boethius

Boethius

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius, commonly called Boethius (c. 480–524 AD), was a Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher of the early 6th century. He was born four years after Odoacer deposed the last Roman Emperor and declared himself King of Italy, and entered public service under Ostrogothic King Theodoric the Great, who later imprisoned and executed him in 524 on charges…

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Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. THE CONSOLATION was written in the period leading up to his brutal execution. It is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisoner and his "nurse" Philosophy. Her instruction on the nature of fortune and happiness, good and evil, fate and free will, restore his health and bring him to enlightenment. THE CONSOLATION was extremely popular throughout medieval Europe and his ideas were influential on the thought of Chaucer and Dante.

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