![]() ![]() Her instruction on the nature of fortune and happiness, good and evil, fate and free will, restore his health and bring him to enlightenment. It is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisoner and his ‘nurse’ Philosophy. ![]() The Consolation was written in the period leading up to his brutal execution. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. It has been described as the single most important and influential work in the West on Medieval and early Renaissance Christianity, as well as the last great Western work of the Classical Period.īoethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. The Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: De consolatione philosophiae) is a philosophical work by the Roman statesman Boethius, written around the year 524. ![]()
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