![]() She rebukes him for his self-pity and bids him to turn his mind to her truths, in order to reconcile him to his condition and find peace in the midst of anguish. ![]() Written in exile (or possibly in prison while awaiting execution), the book depicts Boethius mourning his own ruin, when an angelic woman appears to him, the Lady Philosophy. The Consolation is a different beast -classical, certainly, and in the finest tradition of ancient philosophy, but also far more personal. He also followed the classical tradition in writing manuals on the quadrivium: music, astronomy, arithmetic, and geometry. The next year, he was executed, but not before completing a book that was to be beloved for centuries: The Consolation of Philosophy, a short yet profound work, dealing with the turns of fortune, the problem of evil, and the mystery of divine foreknowledge.īoethius’ prior works were scholarly and often theological it was principally thanks to him that Aristotle’s writings on logic (though little else) remained available in Latin when the west had forgotten its Greek, and his writings on the Trinity and the Incarnation helped prepare the ground for the Scholastic revival centuries later. In that year, a brilliant scholar and state official named Boethius was ruined by his enemies on accusation of conspiring with the Byzantines, and sent into exile. In 523, the Ostrogoths had assumed control of the wreckage of the Western Roman Empire, maintaining uneasy ties with the emperors in Constantinople. ![]()
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