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.

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

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

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.

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.

The title of the book is a reference to Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, in which philosophy appears as an allegorical figure to Boethius to console him in the period leading up to his impending execution.

The three branches of the Medieval concept of musica were presented by Boethius in his book De Musica:

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.

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

A link between Boethius and a mathematical boardgame Rithmomachia has been made.

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.

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

No Westerner between Boethius and Abelard is known to have read the Prior Analytics.

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.

Boethius himself was consul in 510 in the kingdom of the Ostrogoths.

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.

Lastly, perhaps the most influential author of Late Antiquity was Boethius, in whose work Consolation of Philosophy we are first introduced to the personified Lady Philosophy, the source of innumerable later such personified figures ( Lady Luck, etc ..)

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.

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

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, The Consolation of Philosophy.

* Henry Chadwick, Boethius: The Consolations of Music, Logic, Theology and Philosophy, 1990, ISBN 0-19-826549-2

* 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.

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.

* 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: The Consolation of Philosophy

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

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

La Vita Nuova is a prosimetrum, as is the Convivio, meaning that it is a piece which is made up of both verse and prose, in the vein of Boethius ' Consolation of Philosophy.

Alfred the Great ’ s translation of Boethius ’ Consolation of Philosophy and the Old English Genesis ).

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.

* Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius

The longest is a 10th century translation of Boethius ' Consolation of Philosophy contained in the Cotton manuscript Otho A. vi.

The Metres of Boethius are a series of Old English alliterative poems adapted from the Latin metra of the Consolation of Philosophy soon after the prose translation.

* Boethius, Consolation Of Philosophy, 1653

An undercurrent of philosophy is added by Chaucer, mainly inspired by the Consolation of Philosophy of Boethius which Chaucer had also translated.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.