* 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.

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 )

* Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius ( 480 –? 525 ), one of the last great philosophers of Rome.

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

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

* Boethius, Roman philosopher and writer ( d. 524 )

* Boethius, Roman philosopher and writer ( or 524 )

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.

The deposition and execution of the distinguished magister officiorum Boethius and his father-in-law in 524 was a symptom of the slowly increasing alienation of their caste from the Gothic regime.

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

He held many important offices during Theodoric's reign, including being appointed consul for the year 510, but Boethius confesses in his De consolatione philosophiae that his greatest achievement was to have both his sons made consuls for the same year ( 522 ), and finding himself sitting " between the two consuls and as if it were a military triumph let your largess fulfil the wildest expectations of the people packed in their seats around you.

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

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

The universal is reduced to an emission of sound ( flatus vocis ), in conformity with Boethius ' definition: Nihil enim aliud est prolatio ( vocis ) quam aeris plectro linguae percussio.

*, a summary of Boethius ' ( Consolation of Philosophy ), by Simon de Fresne ( Hist.

While his breadth of interest was large, Metochites's culture rests wholly on a Greek basis, though Planudes, by his translations from the Latin ( Cato, Ovid, Cicero, Caesar, and Boethius ), vastly enlarged the Eastern intellectual horizon.

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.

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

Bernard, in common with others of his school, devoted more attention to the study of the Timaeus and the works of the Neo-Platonists than to the study of Aristotle's dialectical treatises and the commentaries of Boethius.

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.

The pursuit of wisdom, he assured his readers of the Boethius, was the surest path to power: " Study Wisdom, then, and, when you have learned it, condemn it not, for I tell you that by its means you may without fail attain to power, yea, even though not desiring it ".

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

She consoles Boethius by discussing the transitory nature of fame and wealth (" no man can ever truly be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune "), and the ultimate superiority of things of the mind, which she calls the " one true good ".

The book is heavily influenced by Plato and his dialogues ( as was Boethius himself ).

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 ).

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.

The problem was introduced to the medieval world by Boethius, by his translation of Porphyry's Isagoge.

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

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

His philosophy can be seen as a synthesis of Aristotle and early Christian doctrine as formulated by Boethius and Augustine of Hippo, although sources such as Maimonides and Plato and the aforementioned Muslim scholars are also cited.

In the second book, dealing with dialectic and rhetoric, Isidore is heavily indebted to translations from the Greek by Boethius, and in treating logic, Cassiodorus, who provided the gist of Isidore's treatment of arithmetic in Book III.

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.

Boethius, of the noble Anicia family, entered public life at a young age and was already a senator by the age of 25.

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

However, his father died when Boethius was young, and he was adopted by another patrician, Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus.

In Dante's Paradise of The Divine Comedy, the spirit of Boethius is pointed out by St. Thomas Aquinas:

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.

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

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