1. Boethius: Consolation Of Philosophy Background information and Latin and English texts of this classic. The English text is drawn from Category Society Philosophy Philosophers boethius......boethius Consolatio Philosophiae. Preface; Translation; Life of boethius; SelectBibliography; Metrical Introduction; Abbreviations. About this document http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/boethius/boethius.html

Boethius: Consolatio Philosophiae Preface Latin text of the Consolatio Philosophiae , with links to commentary (chiefly grammatical and lexical) by J.J. O'Donnell. Concordance to the Latin text This handsome WWW presentation of the text and commentary was prepared by Joost Kok (Amsterdam) , to whom I am very grateful. An alternate presentation for the web on the Perseus site, executed by Ariane Schwartz (Penn '05). The Consolation of Philosophy: an English Translation Life of Boethius Select Bibliography Metrical Introduction ... About this document

2. Jacques Maritain Center: CE - Boethius Explore a detailed description of the theories and writings of this fifth and sixth century philosopher. boethius. boethius, ANICIUS MANLIUS SEVERINUS, Roman statesman and philosopher, often styled "the last of the Romans", http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/boethius.htm

Jacques Maritain Center Readings Boethius Boethius, Tradition began very early to represent Boethius as a martyr for the Christian Faith. It was believed that among the accusations brought against him was devotion to the Catholic cause, which at that time was championed by the Emperor Justin against the Arian Theodoric. In the eighth century this tradition had assumed definite shape, and in many places Boethius was honoured as a martyr, and his feast observed on the twenty-third of October. In recent times, critical scholarship has gone to the opposite extreme, and there have not been wanting critics who asserted that Boethius was not a Christian at all, or that, if he was, he abjured the Faith before his death. The foundation for this opinion is the fact that in the "Consolations of Philosophy" no mention is made of Christ or of the Christian religion. A saner view, which seems at the present time to be prevalent among scholars, is that Boethius was a Christian and remained a Christian to the end. That he was a Christian is proved by his theological tracts, some of which, as we shall see, are undoubtedly genuine. That he remained a Christian is the obvious inference from the ascertained fact of his continued association with Symmachus; and if the "Consolations of Philosophy" bears no trace of Christian influence, the explanation is at hand in the fact that it is an entirely artificial exercise, a philosophical dialogue modelled on strictly pagan productions, a treatise in which, according to the ideas of method which prevailed at the time, Christian feeling and Christian thought had no proper place. Besides, even if we disregard certain allusions which some interpret in a Christian sense, there are passages in the treatise which seem plainly to hint that, after philosophy has poured out all her consolations for the benefit of the prisoner, there are more potent remedies (

3. Boethius boethius. boethius (c.480c.525 CE) was philosopher, poet, politician,and (perhaps) martyr. His Consolation of Philosophy was unremarked http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/boethius.html

Boethius Boethius (c.480-c.525 CE) was philosopher, poet, politician, and (perhaps) martyr. His Consolation of Philosophy was unremarked in its own time and a late-blooming best-seller three hundred years later. Its vogue lasted most of a thousand years. This site provides: Latin text of the Consolation along with some supporting materials, including line-by-line commentary English translation ... Short bibliography Also available, courtesy of the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum project, T. Mathiesen director, Indiana University is the Latin text of Boethius' de musica with some added features The International Boethius Society and its journal, Carmina Philosophiae , will be of interest to many who read this page. This page was created for the fall 1994 Boethius Internet seminar, which offered "credit" and grades from the University of Pennsylvania to four doughty participants from around the world, as well as the lively experience of auditing to hundreds more. The page is maintained as a resource for students and scholars and will doubtless be the basis of future teaching as well. For further information, contact jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu

4. Boethius: Consolation Of Philosophy University of Virginia presents this electronic text version of boethius' "Consolation of Philosophy." Includes a preface and a bibliography. boethius Consolatio Philosophiae. Edited, with a Commentary, by James J. O'Donnell, University of Pennsylvania http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/latin/boethius/consolatio.html

Boethius: Consolatio Philosophiae Edited, with a Commentary, by James J. O'Donnell, University of Pennsylvania Preface Life of Boethius Select Bibliography Metrical Introduction ... Search Boethius Consolatio Philosophiae (Latin with English notes) The Consolation of Philosophy: an English Translation Translated by W.V. Cooper (Dent: London, 1902). The Temple Classics, edited by Israel Golancz M.A. About this document Back to the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center

5. Boethius Concise biography and bibliography, provided by the boethius server at the University of California Santa Barbara. http://boethius.music.ucsb.edu/boethius-information.html

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius Boethius was a Roman scholar and statesman, author of the neoplatonic work Consolations of Philosophy De consolatione philosophiae ). He is best knows as a translator of and commentator on Greek writings on logic and mathematics (Plato, Aristotle, Nichomachus). He was appointed consul in 510 by King Theodoric, and in 520 head of government and court services. For political views he held, Boethius fell out of favor with the King and was charged with treason for defending a senator accused of treasonous activity. While in prison awaiting execution, he wrote Consolations of Philosophy One of the first musical works to be printed (Venice, 1491-92), Boethius's De institutione musica , written in the early sixth century, was for medieval authors from around the ninth century on the authoritative document on Greek music-theoretical thought and systems. The focus on counterpoint and the ecclesiatical modes in treatises after 1400 marginalized Boethius's volume to some extent, but it regained significance with the discovery and translation into Latin of ancient Greek works that Boethius had used as the basis for De institutione musica . Franchino Gaffurio, for example, acknowledged Boethius in

6. Life Of Boethius Life of boethius. Anicius Manlius Severinus boethius was born and privateleisure. In two ways, however, boethius was unique. He was far http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/latin/boethius/boebio.html

Life of Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius was born in or near Rome around the year 480 A.D. Orphaned young, he was brought up in the household of one of the richest and most venerable aristocrats of the time, Symmachus. He married Symmachus's daughter and pursued a typical career for a senatorial scion of the time, alternating between ceremonial public office and private leisure. In two ways, however, Boethius was unique. He was far and away the best educated Roman of his age: indeed, there had been no one like him for a century, and there would never be another (the senate, long since ceremoniously inane, disappeared forever by the end of the sixth century). He had a command of the Greek language adequate to make him a student, translator, and commentator of the Platonic philosophies of his age (to which we give the name Neoplatonism, to distinguish their opinions from the original doctrines of Plato himself). Boethius may in fact have studied in the Greek east, perhaps at Athens, perhaps at Alexandria, but we cannot be sure. At any rate, he undertook an ambitious project of translating and interpreting all the works of both Plato and Aristotle and then he opined demonstrating the essential agreement of the two. Only a few pieces of this large undertaking were completed before Boethius's life was cut short. The Consolation of Philosophy is apparently the fruit of Boethius's spell of imprisonment awaiting trial and execution. Its literary genre, with a regular alternation of prose and verse sections, is called Menippean Satire, after Roman models of which fragments and analogues survive. The dialogue between two characters (one of whom we may call Boethius, but only on condition that we distinguish Boethius the character from Boethius the author, who surely manipulated his self-representation for literary and philosophical effect) is carefully structured according to the best classical models. Its language is classical in intent, but some of the qualities that would characterize medieval Latin are already discernible.

7. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Boethius (Catholic Encyclopedia) http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02610b.htm

Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... B > Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius A B C D ... Z Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius Roman statesman and philosopher, often styled "the last of the Romans", regarded by tradition as a Christian Tradition began very early to represent Boethius as a martyr for the Christian Faith . It was believed that among the accusations brought against him was devotion to the Catholic cause, which at that time was championed by the Emperor Justin against the Arian Theodoric. In the eighth century this tradition had assumed definite shape, and in many places Boethius was honoured as a martyr, and his feast observed on the twenty-third of October. In recent times, critical scholarship has gone to the opposite extreme, and there have not been wanting critics who asserted that Boethius was not a Christian at all, or that, if he was, he abjured the Faith before his death. The foundation for this opinion is the fact that in the "Consolations of Philosophy" no mention is made of Christ or of the Christian religion . A saner view, which seems at the present time to be prevalent among scholars, is that Boethius was a

8. Boethius Concise article by Richard Hooker on the life and influence of this thinker.Category Society Philosophy Philosophers boethius......Ancius Manlius Severinus boethius was born about 480 AD into the prestigiousfamily of the Ancii; he rose quickly to the top of the Roman political http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee/CHRIST/BOETHIUS.HTM

Boethius Consolation of Philosophy , became the single, most important book in the West in medieval and early Renaissance Christianity. If anyone defined a world view for the medievals, and even the people of the Renaissance, it was this poor, battered man trying in his last days of life to explain his suffering and the existence of evil. fortune ," the latter the idea of " Providence ." These two perspectives are perhaps the most important legacy Boethius bequeaths to history and the Western concept of history and time, and I'm having you read the section of the work which defines the difference between the two. The problem of Providence leads to a second question: if God knows the future, does that mean that the future is predestined and that human beings have essentially no moral choice in the matter? The second section you are reading attempts to explain how "Providence" (which means: "seeing forward") does not mean "predetermination" or "predestination." Richard Hooker Change to . . . Christianity The Backgrounds Jesus of Nazareth Paul of Tarsus Hebrews and Hellenists The Early Church The Early Church in Europe Augustine Boethius A Gallery of Early Christianity A Timeline of Early Christianity An Atlas of Early Christianity Readings in Early Christianity A Glossary of Early Christianity Internet Resources on Early Christianity About "Early Christianity" Bibliography of Sources ©1996, Richard Hooker

9. "Put Things Into Perspective Ein ausf¼hrliches Referat ¼ber boethius Schrift Consolatio philosophiae. http://www.uni-rostock.de/fakult/philfak/fkw/iph/strobach/veranst/therapy/consol

"Putting things into perspective..." - Boethius' "Trost der Philosophie" im Schnelldurchlauf 1. Einleitung c 2. Zusammenfassung Buch I - Die Diagnose Ein finsterer Kerker . Bei seinem ersten Lied ist Boethius von drei Musen umgeben, die ihn zu einem Klagegedicht inspirieren. Textausschnitt 1 He, Boethius. Erkennst du mich denn gar nicht? (I,2.P.) B.: Du bist ja... die Philosophie! verliert die Fassung Textausschnitt 2 Buch II - Vom Schmerzmittel zu den ersten Argumenten Ph.: ( als Fortuna Ph.: ( wieder als sie selbst B.: Solange du gesungen hast, hat's geholfen. Jetzt hilft's nicht mehr. zum ersten Mal gewesen Noch eins? Ja? ( Boethius nickt Boethius nickt Du kannst es dir auch so klarmachen: - Geld ist nur was wert, wenn man es ausgibt. Ph.: Und wie ist es mit der Macht? - Was ein Tyrann wegnehmen kann - auch das Leben - kann ihm selbst genommen werden. Ist das Macht? endlich Buch III - Grundkurs Neuplatonismus " nennen. Mit Mit Auch Geld und Macht B.: Stimmt. ist B.: Stimmt. Gott ist 1. Es gibt nur ein Boethius nickt beeindruckt eins zu sein. (ebd.)

10. The Consolation Of Boethius By Sanderson Beck Commentary and translation by Sanderson Beck.Category Society Philosophy Philosophers boethius......BECK index. The Consolation of boethius. by Sanderson Beck. 16. Ibid., V, p. 120.Copyright 1996 by Sanderson Beck. THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY by boethius. http://www.san.beck.org/Boethius.html

11. Boethius (480-524) Forum Frigate Discussion forum and devoted to the life and works of boethius. Hosted by the Carolina Navy. http://carolinanavy.com/fleet2/f2/zchristian/Boethius(480-524)hall/shakespeare1.

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12. TAPE 2: BOETHIUS ON PORPHYRY Lecture notes on this topic, by RJ Kilcullen.Category Society Philosophy Philosophers boethius......Macquarie University PHIL252 Medieval Philosophy. TAPE 2 boethiusON PORPHYRY. Copyright © 1996 RJ Kilcullen. boethius ON PORPHYRY. http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/Ockham/x52t02.html

Macquarie University PHIL252 Medieval Philosophy TAPE 2: BOETHIUS ON PORPHYRY R.J. Kilcullen Before listening to this tape you should read V.E. Watt's introduction to his Penguin translation of The Consolation of Philosophy . In this lecture I will talk about Boethius' other writings, and then I will comment on an extract from his commentary on Porphyry. To follow this lecture you will need either the Readings book, or Richard McKeon (ed.), Selections from Medieval Philosophers (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons). From the introduction by Watts you will have gathered that Boethius was both a philosopher and a politician. This combination of roles was recommended by Plato and exemplified (imperfectly) in Roman history by Cicero. Cicero also preceded Boethius as a translator of Greek philosophy into Latin. E.K. Rand in his chapter on Boethius in his Founders of the Middle Ages quotes from Boethius' preface to his commentary on Aristotle's Categories , written in the year Boethius was consul. He says: Although the cares of my consular office prevent me from devoting my entire attention to these studies, yet it seems to me a sort of public service to instruct my fellow citizens in the products of reasoned investigation... I am glad to assume the... task of educating our present society in the spirit of Greek philosophy... this is truly a part of my consular duty...

13. Boethius, C.475-524 A brief biography with a selection from The Consolation of Philosophy. http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/boethius.html

Boethius, c.475-524 Anicius Manlius Severinus, better known as Boethius, was born of a consular family and studied philosophy, mathematics and poetry. Soon after 500 he was appointed a court minister by the Gothic king, Theodoric, now ruling Italy from Rome. Boethius was made consul in 510, and his two sons shared the same honor in 522. But his boldness brought down upon his head the vengeance of those whom he had checked in their oppressions. He was accused of treasonable designs against Theodoric, was stripped of his dignities, and, after imprisonment and torture at Pavia, was executed in 524. During his imprisonment he wrote his famous De Consolatione Philosophiae (a selection of which follows), in which the author holds a conversation with Philosophy, who shows him the mutability of all earthly fortune, and the insecurity of everything save virtue. The work, which in style imitates the best Augustan models, is theistic in its language, but affords no indication that that its writer was in fact a Christian. Boethius was the last great Roman writer who understood Greek and his translations of Aristotle were long the only means of studying Greek philosophy. His manuals on arithmetic, astronomy, geometry and music were generally used in medieval schools. The following selection is intended to give you a brief "taste" of Boethius. With any luck, you will find yourself buried in the world of the

14. Alfred's Boethius: Modern English Translation Modern English Translation of the 31 meters of boethius. http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/ENG720/SdgTrans/SedgefieldMetersTrans.htm

King Alfred's Boethius Book: Meters THE LAYS OF BOETHIUS PRELUDE P Thus the old tale Alfred told us, West Saxons' king. He shewed the cunning, The craft of songmen. Keenly he longed Unto the people to put forth songs Men to make merry, manifold stories, Lest a weariness should ward away The man self-filled, that small heed taketh Of such in his pride. Again I must speak, Take up my singing, the tale far known Weave for mortals; let who will listen. LAYS I P Twas long ago when the eastern Goths Sent from Scythia their swarms of shieldmen, With multitudes harried many a nation. Two tribes triumphant tramped to the south. The Goths in greatness grew year by year; Akin to the clansmen kings were there twain, Raedgod and Aleric; they ruled in power. O'er Jove's mountain came many a Goth Gorged with glory, greedy to wrestle In fight with foemen. The banner flashing Fluttered on the staff. Freely the heroes All Italy over were eager to roam, The wielders of bucklers, bearing onward

15. Boethius Article by J.J. O'Connor and E.F. Robertson, giving a short view of boethius' role in the history of mathematics. This study of his life and work is supplemented with a poster, images and quotations. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Boethius.html

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius Born: about 480 in in or near Rome, Italy Died: 524 in Pavia, Italy Click the picture above to see six larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius came from the family of Anicii who had been Christians for around 100 years. He became an orphan when he was about seven years old when his father, who became consul in 487, died soon afterward. Boethius was brought up in the house of the aristocratic family of Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus. In fact Symmachus himself had been consul in 485 just before Boethius's father. Boethius was extremely well educated, being fluent in Greek and very familiar with the works of the Greek philosophers. Although there is no firm evidence to prove that Boethius ever studied in Athens or Alexandria, many historians believe that this must have been the case for him to have achieved a unique level of scholarship among his countrymen. He married Symmachus's daughter Rusticiana and they had two sons who would follow their father in being appointed to high public office. Boethius served a term as consul in 510 while in 522 his two sons held the office consul simultaneously.

16. Alfred. Anglo-Saxon Version Of Boethius' Consolation Of Philosophy Modern English translation by Samuel Fox, with introduction and notes. http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/Boethius_Fox.pdf

17. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus boethius. Roman Philosophiae . Tradition beganvery early to represent boethius as a martyr for the Christian Faith. http://www.knight.org/advent/cathen/02610b.htm

18. SMT Server: Boethius Offers a biography of Ancius Manlius Severinus Beothius who was a 5th century Roman politician and religious theologian.    Ancius Manlius Severinus boethius was born about 480 A.D. http://boethius.music.ucsb.edu/boethius.html

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19. Boethius: Consolation Of Philosophy boethius, THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY. SELECTIONS. Fate and Providence1 (Book IV, Prose 6). boethius is asking, is the universe mechanistic ? http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee/CHRIST/CONSO.HTM

B OETHIUS THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY SELECTIONS Fate and Providence (Book IV, Prose 6) "It remains," I said, "for you to explain this apparent injustice I'm suffering now (that is, Boethius' imprisonment, torture, and impending execution)." "The question you're asking," Lady Philosophy replied with a smile, "is the grandest of all mysteries, one which can never be explained completely to the human intellect, for, when one problem is removed, many more arise to take its place, and arise and arise unless the mind is keen and awake. For the problem you raise touches on a number of difficult questions: the simplicity of Providence, the nature of Fate, the unpredictability of Chance, divine and human knowledge, predestination, and free will. You know the difficulty involved in these questions; nevertheless, I will try to answer them in the short space allotted us." Then, as though she were beginning for the first time, Philosophy said, "The coming-into-being of all things, and the entire course that changeable things take, derive their causes, their order, and their forms from the unchanging mind of God. The mind of God set down all the various rules by which all things are governed while still remaining unchanged in its own simplicity. When the government of all things is seen as belonging to the simplicity and purity of the divine mind, we call it 'Providence.' When this government of all things is seen from the point of view of the things that change and move, that is, all things which are governed, from the very beginning of time we have called this 'Fate.' We can easily see that Providence and Fate are different if we think over the power of discernment each has. Providence is the divine reason, the divine

20. Electronic Text Center Latin Resources A good sized collection of Latin texts. Unfortunately, all but boethius' Consolatio Philosophiae and Ovid's Metamorphoses are restricted to use by students at the University of Virginia. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/latin.html

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