For the book by Alain de Botton published in 2000, see The Consolations of Philosophy.
The Consolation of Philosophy
Page from a 15th century French manuscript
Author
Boethius
Translators
Alfred the Great
Henry Rosher James
Jean de Meun
Notker Labeo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Elizabeth I
Language
Latin
Subject
Fate, Christian theology
Publication date
524
Published in English
Mid-14th century (Middle English)
Dewey Decimal
082.1
Original text
The Consolation of Philosophy at Latin Wikisource
Translation
The Consolation of Philosophy at Wikisource
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On the Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: De consolatione philosophiae),[1] often titled as The Consolation of Philosophy or simply the Consolation, is a philosophical work by the Roman philosopher Boethius. Written in 523 while he was imprisoned and awaiting execution by the Ostrogothic King Theodoric, it is often described as the last great Western work of the Classical Period. Boethius' Consolation heavily influenced the philosophy of late antiquity, as well as Medieval and early Renaissance Christianity.[2][3]
^Knowles, David (1967). "Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus", The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Paul Edwards, v. 1, p. 329.
^The Consolation of Philosophy (Oxford World's Classics), Introduction (2000)
^Dante placed Boethius the "last of the Romans and first of the Scholastics" among the doctors in his Paradise (see The Divine Comedy) (see also below).
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