Boethius

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Boethius was a late antique Roman philosopher and statesman best known for his work "The Consolation of Philosophy," which profoundly shaped medieval Christian and scholastic thought.

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1

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instanceOf Christian philosopher
Roman philosopher
late antique philosopher
person
philosopher
statesman
theologian
authorOf The Consolation of Philosophy
surface form: De consolatione philosophiae

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The Consolation of Philosophy
birthDate circa 480
birthPlace Rome
causeOfDeath execution
citizenship Ostrogothic Kingdom
Western Roman Empire
deathDate circa 524
employer Theoderic the Great
surface form: Theodoric the Great
era Late Antiquity
fieldOfWork logic
mathematics
music theory
philosophy
theology
fullName Boethius self-linksurface differs
surface form: Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
genre consolation literature
philosophical dialogue
influenced Anselm of Canterbury
Peter Abelard
St. Thomas Aquinas
surface form: Thomas Aquinas

medieval scholasticism
influencedBy Aristotle
Augustine of Hippo
Plato
Porphyry
knownFor The Consolation of Philosophy NERFINISHED
commentaries on Aristotle
transmitting Greek philosophy to the Latin West
works on logic
works on the quadrivium
languageOfWorkOrName Latin
memberOf Anicii
surface form: Anicii family
name Boethius self-link
notableWork The Consolation of Philosophy
occupation logician
philosopher
statesman
theologian
translator
philosophicalTradition Christian philosophy
Neoplatonism
placeOfDeath Pavia NERFINISHED
positionHeld consul of the Roman Empire
magister officiorum under Theodoric the Great
religion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholicism

Christianity
subjectOf medieval commentaries
modern scholarship

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