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.

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 ".

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.

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

It has often been said Boethius was the “ last of the Romans and the first of the Scholastics ”.

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.

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.

The quadrivium is implicit in early Pythagorean writings and in the De nuptiis of Martianus Capella, although the term " quadrivium " was not used until Boethius early in the sixth century.

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Symmachus and Boethius ( or, less frequently, year 1275 Ab urbe condita ).

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Boethius without colleague ( or, less frequently, year 1240 Ab urbe condita ).

* 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.

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

According to early historians John of Fordun and Boethius, Carlisle existed before the arrival of the Romans in Britain and was one of the strongest British towns at the time.

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 ).

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

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.

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.

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

Both Memmius Symmachus and Boethius were fluent in Greek, an increasingly rare skill at the time in the Western Empire, which has led some scholars to think that Boethius was educated in the East.

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

A related line of thought, which goes back at least to Boethius, holds that God observing someone making a choice does not constrain their choice, although this is in the context of human free will

He likely studied under Thomas Aquinas, who was a strong influence on his writings and taught at the University between 1269 and 1272. a notebook of his student years has been dated around 1271-1274 where there are views “ proposed by Siger of Brabant and Boethius of Dacia, leading representatives of the radical Aristotelian movement in the Arts faculty at the time.

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, on 27th November 1510 he supplicated for the degree of BMus at Oxford University, proposing for his examination an oration on the volumes of Boethius, and the submission ( and performance ) of a mass and an antiphon.

Deeply influenced by Boethius ' De Institutione Musica, he wrote the first systematic work on western music theory, aiming at reconciling through many notated examples ancient Greek music theory and the contemporary practice of the more recent so-called ' Gregorian chant '.

In 523, however, Boethius fell from power ; after a period of imprisonment, he was eventually executed.

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

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

Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (" The Fortunes of Famous Men "), used by John Lydgate to compose his Fall of Princes, tells of many where the turn of Fortune's wheel brought those most high to disaster, and Boccaccio essay De remedii dell ' una e dell ' altra Fortuna, depends upon Boethius for the double nature of Fortuna.

Boethius is circular and cup-shaped, with inner walls sloping down to the tiny central floor.

In addition, Aurelian made many mistakes interpreting Boethius ; European music theory was in its infancy, and the music theory of antiquity, as passed down by Boethius, was evidently difficult to understand and apply to the tradition of chant, which was the only music Aurelian knew.

* 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.

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 ".

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

Boethius ( 480 ?- 524 ), in his brief Overview of the Structure of Rhetoric, continues Aristotle's taxonomy by placing rhetoric in subordination to philosophical argument or dialectic.

* 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 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: