Consolation of Philosophy

Description: An eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, Boethius was also an exceptional Greek scholar, and it was to the Greek philosphers that he turned when he fell from favor and was imprisioned in Pavia. Written in the period leading up to his brutal execution, this book is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisioner and his "nurse," Philosophy, whose instruction on the nature of fortune and happiness, good and evil, fate and free will, restore his health and bring him to enlightment. Consolation of Philosophy An eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, Boethius was also an exceptional Greek scholar, and it was to the Greek philosphers that he turned when he fell from favor and was imprisioned in Pavia. Written in the period leading up to his brutal execution, this book is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisioner and his "nurse," Philosophy, whose instruction on the nature of fortune and happiness, good and evil, fate and free will, restore his health and bring him to enlightment.

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Original Language: Latin

Book Title: Consolation of Philosophy : Revised Edition

Number of Pages: 192 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Item Height: 0.4 in

Publication Year: 2000

Topic: History & Surveys / Medieval, Religious, Europe / Medieval

Illustrator: Yes

Features: Revised

Genre: Philosophy, History

Item Weight: 5.2 Oz

Author: Ancius Boethius

Item Length: 7.7 in

Item Width: 5.1 in

Format: Uk-B Format Paperback