Boethius

In this highly praised new translation of Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy, David R. Slavitt presents a graceful, accessible, and modern version for both longtime admirers of one of the great masterpieces of philosophical literature and those encountering it for the first time. Slavitt preserves the distinction between the alternating verse and prose sections in the Latin original, allowing us...

"Entirely faithful to Boethius' Latin; it makes the philosophy of the Consolation of Philosophy intelligible to students; it gives equal weight to the poetry -- in fact, Relihan's metrical translation of Boethius' metra are themselves contributions of the first moment to Boethian studies. Boethius finally has a translator equal to his prodigious talents and his manifold vision." -- Joseph Pucci,...

What do you do when your life has fallen apart? Fifteen hundred years ago, a Roman nobleman named Boethius (ca. 480-524 CE) asked this question as he was sitting in a prison cell waiting to die, accused probably unjustly of treason. Boethius had been a rich and powerful man with all a person could want in life, but now he...

Boethius (Boetius) - Anicius Manlius Severinus - was a Roman statesman and philosopher (ca. 480–524 CE). He was the son of Flavius Manlius Boetius, and after his father's death, he was cared for by several men, notably Memmius Symmachus. Boethius married Symmachus's daughter, Rusticiana, with whom he had two sons. All three men rose to high honours under Theodoric the...