Description: An eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, Boethius was also an exceptional Greek scholar, and it was to the Greek philosphers that he turned when he fell from favor and was imprisioned in Pavia. Written in the period leading up to his brutal execution, this book is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisioner and his "nurse," Philosophy, whose instruction on the nature of fortune and happiness, good and evil, fate and free will, restore his health and bring him to enlightment. Consolation of Philosophy An eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, Boethius was also an exceptional Greek scholar, and it was to the Greek philosphers that he turned when he fell from favor and was imprisioned in Pavia. Written in the period leading up to his brutal execution, this book is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisioner and his "nurse," Philosophy, whose instruction on the nature of fortune and happiness, good and evil, fate and free will, restore his health and bring him to enlightment.
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Original Language: Latin
Book Title: Consolation of Philosophy : Revised Edition
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Item Height: 0.4 in
Publication Year: 2000
Topic: History & Surveys / Medieval, Religious, Europe / Medieval
Illustrator: Yes
Features: Revised
Genre: Philosophy, History
Item Weight: 5.2 Oz
Author: Ancius Boethius
Item Length: 7.7 in
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Uk-B Format Paperback
