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

* Theodoric the Great appoints his friend Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, Roman philosopher, to the rank of consul of the Ostrogothic Kingdom.

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

* Boethius, Roman philosopher, is executed without trial, probably at Pavia, after a prison term during which he has written the " Consolation of Philosophy " ( approximate date ).

* Boethius, Roman philosopher and writer

* Boethius, Roman philosopher and writer ( or 524 )

His father, Flavius Manlius Boethius, was consul in 487 after Odoacer deposed the last Western Roman Emperor.

Boethius was imprisoned and eventually executed by King Theodoric the Great, who suspected him of conspiring with the Eastern Roman Empire.

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.

However, throughout all this turmoil, unlike Boethius, another Christian philosopher of the 6th century, he was never charged with being a covert supporter of a revived Roman Empire.

As the Western Roman Empire declined, the Latin tradition was kept alive by writers such as Cassiodorus, Boethius, and Symmachus.

The concept of musica was split into four major kinds by the fifth century philosopher, Boethius: musica universalis, musica humana, musica instrumentalis, and musica divina.

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

The French scholar Pierre Courcelle has argued that Boethius studied at Alexandria with the Neo-Platonist philosopher Ammonius Hermiae.

* Boethius ( consul 522 ), son of the philosopher, consul in 522

* Hector Boece ( or Boethius, or Boyce ) ( 1465-1536 ) Scottish philosopher and historian

Hector Boece (; also spelled Boyce or Boise ; 1465 – 1536 ), known in Latin as Hector Boecius or Boethius, was a Scottish philosopher and first Principal of King's College in Aberdeen, a predecessor of the University of Aberdeen.

* Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius ( 5th century ), influential Christian philosopher

Macrobius ' Commentary upon Scipio's Dream was known to the sixth-century philosopher Boethius, and was later valued throughout the Middle Ages as a primer of cosmology.

" He prefers the scholastic philosophy of the Middle Ages, and the Early Medieval philosopher Boethius in particular.

In the 6th century, the Consolation of Philosophy, by statesman and philosopher Boethius, written while he faced execution, reflected the Christian theology of casus, that the apparently random and often ruinous turns of Fortune's Wheel are in fact both inevitable and providential, that even the most coincidental events are part of God's hidden plan which one should not resist or try to change.

Victorinus wrote a brief treatise De Definitionibus, that is, On Definition, which lists and discusses the various types of definitions utilized by rhetoricians and philosopher, recommending the " substantial definitions " proferred by the latter ( prior to the late 19th century this work was ascribed to Boethius.

* Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, late-Roman writer best known for his works in philosophy and theology.

* The Basilica of San Pietro in Ciel d ' Oro (" St. Peter in Golden Sky "), where Saint Augustine, Boethius and the Lombard king Liutprand are buried, was begun in the 6th century.

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.

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.