The Consolation of Philosophy
by Ancius Boethius, Victor Watts (Translator, Introduction by, Preface by)
ISBN-10: 0140447806
ISBN-13: 9780140447804
$16.00
Book Specs
UK-B Format Paperback
Penguin Classics
Published on
May 1, 2000
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
8.66x5.91x0.98 Inches
Weight
0.32 Pounds
About the Book
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.