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The Consolation of Philosophy (Penguin Classics) Book
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BookDepository
The Consolation of Philosophy : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780140447804 : 0140447806 : 01 May 2000 : Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. This work is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between him and his 'nurse' Philosophy.
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Penguin
'Why else does slippery Fortune change So much, and punishment more fit For crime oppress the innocent?' Written in prison before his brutal execution in AD 524, Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy is a conversation between the ailing prisoner and his 'nurse' Philosophy, whose instruction restores him to health and brings him to enlightenment.
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Blackwell
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...
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Pickabook
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, Victor Watts (Trans)
- 0140447806
- 9780140447804
- Ancius Boethius
- 24 April 2003
- Penguin Classics
- Paperback (Book)
- 155
- Revised edition
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