The consolation of philosophy / Boethius ; translated with an introduction by Victor Watts.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Boethius, -524.

Contributor:

• Watts, V. E. (Victor Ernest)
• Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

• Penguin classics

Standardized Title:

• De consolatione philosophiae. English

Language:

• English
• Latin

Subjects (All):

• Philosophy and religion.
• Happiness.

Penn Provenance:

• Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 154 pages ; 20 cm.

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Penguin Books, 1999.

Summary:

• An eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, Boethius (c. AD 475-525) was also an exceptional Greek scholar and it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned when he fell from favour and was imprisoned in Pavia. Written in the period leading up to his brutal execution, it is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisoner and his 'nurse' Philosophy, whose instruction on the nature of fortune and happiness, good and evil, fate and free will, restores his health and brings him to enlightenment.
• The clarity of Boethius's thought and his breadth of vision made The Consolation of Philosophy hugely popular throughout medieval Europe and his ideas suffused the thought of Chaucer and Dante. This translation makes it accessible to the modern reader while losing nothing of Boethius's poetic artistry and philosophical brilliance.

Contents:

• Boethius' Life and Writings
• The Consolation of Philosophy
• The Christianity of Boethius.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-142).

ISBN:

• 0140447806
• 9780140447804

OCLC:

42214668

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