With the loss of the study of ancient Greek in the early medieval Latin West, Aristotle was practically unknown there from c. AD 600 to c. 1100 except through the Latin translation of the Organon made by Boethius.

* Boethius ( c. 480 – 524 ), who also wrote a theological treatise On the Trinity, repeated the Macrobian model of the Earth in the center of a spherical cosmos in his influential, and widely translated, Consolation of Philosophy.

* c. 524: Boethius writes his Consolation of Philosophy.

* Boethius, ( c. 480-525 ), Roman philosopher and theologian

Over time the known world came to be viewed as bounded in the east by India and in the west by Thule, as expressed in the Consolation of Philosophy ( c. AD 524 ) by Boethius.

This was also a period of transmission: the Roman patrician Boethius ( c. 480 – 524 ) translated part of Aristotle's logical corpus, thus preserving it for the Latin West, and wrote the influential literary and philosophical treatise De consolatione Philosophiae ; Cassiodorus ( c. 485 – 585 ) founded an important library at the monastery of Vivarium near Squillace where many texts from Antiquity were to be preserved.

* Boethius ( c. 480 – 525 )

Another translation was completed by Boethius in the 5th century, c. 510 / 512.

One of Alan's most notable works was one he modeled after Boethius ’ Consolation of Philosophy, to which he gave the title De Planctu Naturae, or The Plaint of Nature, and which was written most likely in the late 1160 ’ s.

Boethius ' Consolation of Philosophy was the most popular philosophical handbook of the Middle Ages.

It is in the Boethius that the oft-quoted sentence occurs: " My will was to live worthily as long as I lived, and after my life to leave to them that should come after, my memory in good works.

In fact, he writes in the prelude that he first created a prose work and then used it as the basis for his poem Metres of Boethius, his crowning literary achievement.

Boethius in his second Commentary and The Consolation of Philosophy, this argument maintains the effectiveness of prayer.

* Ammonius: On Aristotle's On Interpretation 9, with Boethius: On Aristotle's On Interpretation 9, translated by D. Blank ( Ammonius ) and N. Kretzmann ( Boethius ).

Consolation of Philosophy () is a philosophical work by Boethius, written around the year 524.

Consolation of Philosophy was written during a one-year imprisonment Boethius served while awaiting trial – and eventual horrific execution – for the crime of treason under the Ostrogothic King Theodoric the Great.

Boethius was at the very heights of power in Rome and was brought down by treachery.

Boethius writes the book as a conversation between himself and Lady Philosophy.

Boethius engages questions such as the nature of predestination and free will, why evil men often prosper and good men fall into ruin, human nature, virtue, and justice.

Watts on Boethius, God is like a spectator at a chariot race ; He watches the action the charioteers perform, but this does not cause them.

On human nature, Boethius says that humans are essentially good and only when they give in to “ wickedness ” do they “ sink to the level of being an animal .” On justice, he says criminals are not to be abused, rather treated with sympathy and respect, using the analogy of doctor and patient to illustrate the ideal relationship between prosecutor and criminal.

In the Consolation, Boethius answered religious questions without reference to Christianity, relying solely on natural philosophy and the Classical Greek tradition.

It is through Boethius that much of the thought of the Classical period was made available to the Western Medieval world.

The Middle Ages, with their vivid sense of an overruling fate, found in Boethius an interpretation of life closely akin to the spirit of Christianity.

Shippey says that Tolkien knew well the translation of Boethius that was made by King Alfred and he quotes some “ Boethian ” remarks from Frodo, Treebeard and Elrond.

Boethius and Consolatio Philosophiae are cited frequently by the main character Ignatius J. Reilly in the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Confederacy of Dunces ( 1980 ).

In the course of the text, Boethius displays a virtuosic command of the forms of Latin poetry.

He may also be the deacon John to whom Boethius dedicated three of his five religious tractates written between 512 and 520.

In 520, Boethius was working to revitalize the relationship between the Church in Rome and the Church in Constantinople.

* Boethius ( 472-524 AD )

The first recorded use of brown as a colour name in English was in about 1000 AD in the Metres of Boethius.

Boethius ( 5th and 6th centuries AD ) labelled them intensione ut nervis, spiritu ut tibiis (" breath in the tube "), and percussione ;

Peter Abelard was intrigued by the works of Boethius, and wrote an extensive commentary on the Isagoge.

Another important source for the influence of Proclus on the Middle Ages is Boethius ' Consolation of Philosophy, which has a number of Proclus principles and motifs.

* His minor works include some speeches, poems, translations of Greek dialogues and commentaries on works by Seneca, Boethius and Cicero

* Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, Roman philosopher, is arrested on charges of having conspired against Theodoric the Great.

Based mainly on Aristotle, the first medieval philosopher to work on dialectics was Boethius.

He is regarded as the inventor of modern musical notation ( staff notation ) that replaced neumatic notation ; his text, the Micrologus, was the second-most-widely distributed treatise on music in the Middle Ages ( after the writings of Boethius ).

* Three treatises dedicated to Symmachus ( the father-in-law of Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius ): on weights and measures ; on the metres of Terence ; and the Praeexercitamina, a translation into Latin of Greek rhetorical exercises from Hermogenes.

Rogers also discusses this issue in her book " Anselm on Freedom ", using the term " four-dimensionalism " rather than " eternalism " for the view that " the present moment is not ontologically privileged ", and commenting that " Boethius and Augustine do sometimes sound rather four-dimensionalist, but Anselm is apparently the first consistently and explicitly to embrace the position.

The work is modelled on Boethius ' Consolation of Philosophy, evident in Adelard's vocabulary and phraseology.

Thus Grosseteste concluded, following very much in what Boethius had argued, that mathematics was the highest of all sciences, and the basis for all others, since every natural science ultimately depended on mathematics.

On a whole, Ratramnus ’ works have been described by medieval scholar Giulio D ' Onofrio as marked by a careful methodological clarity and consistency possibly modeled on Boethius ’ Answer to Eutyches.

* Five books on Boethius De consolatione philosophiae.

While jailed, Boethius composed his Consolation of Philosophy, a philosophical treatise on fortune, death, and other issues.

According to John Moorhead, the traditional view is that Boethius studied in Athens based on Cassiodorus's rhetoric describing Boethius ' learning in one of his letters.

Although Boethius is believed to have been born into a Christian family, some scholars in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have conjectured that he abandoned Christianity for paganism, perhaps on his deathbed.

Not long afterwards Theodoric had Boethius ' father-in-law Symmachus put to death, according to Procopius, on the grounds that he and Boethius together were planning a revolution, and confiscated their property.

Then there is the matter that with his previous ties to Theodahad, Boethius apparently found himself on the wrong side in the succession dispute following the untimely death of Eutharic, Theodoric's announced heir.

* Boethius ( crater on Mercury )

Morgan considers that Aquinas ' Summa Theologiae and Boethius ' De Consolatione Philosophiae were important influences on Chaucer in writing the Franklin's Tale.