Boethius in a sentence

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Boethius without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1240 Ab urbe condita ).

Boethius (480?-524), in his brief Overview of the Structure of Rhetoric, continues Aristotle's taxonomy by placing rhetoric in subordination to philosophical argument or dialectic.

Boethius' logical legacy lay not in any addition he personally made to the field, but rather in his effective transmission of prior theories to later logicians, as well as his clear and primarily accurate presentations of Aristotle's contributions.

Boethius was at the very heights of power in Rome and was brought down by treachery.

Boethius writes the book as a conversation between himself and Lady Philosophy.

Chaucer also translated such important works as Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy and The Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris (extended by Jean de Meun).

From a 1385 Italian manuscript of the Consolation: Miniatures of Boethius teaching and in prison The philosophical message of the book fits well with the religious piety of the Middle Ages.

He imitated all Horace's lyrical meters then followed these up with imitations of other meters used by Prudentius and Boethius, indicating that variety, as first modelled by Horace, was considered a fundamental aspect of the lyric genre.

In the meantime Cassiodorus had succeeded Boethius as magister in 523. The pliant historian and courtier could be counted on to provide refined touches to official correspondence.

It has often been said Boethius was the “ last of the Romans and the first of the Scholastics ”.

It is through Boethius that much of the thought of the Classical period was made available to the Western Medieval world.

Kneale p. 198 Until the twelfth century, the only works of Aristotle available in the West were the Categories, On Interpretation, and Boethius's translation of the Isagoge of Porphyry (a commentary on the Categories).

Religion In about 520 the philosopher Boethius became his magister officiorum (head of all the government and court services).

She consoles Boethius by discussing the transitory nature of fame and wealth ("no man can ever truly be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune"), and the ultimate superiority of things of the mind, which she calls the "one true good".

Shippey contends that this Christian view of evil is most clearly stated by Boethius: "evil is nothing".

Smith, ed., Three Northumbrian Poems Alfred is said to be the author of some of the metrical prefaces to the Old English translations of Gregory's Pastoral Care and Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy.

The gulf was widening between the ancient senatorial aristocracy whose center was Rome and the adherents of Gothic rule at Ravenna: other distinguished public figures followed Boethius to the block.

The Middle Ages, with their vivid sense of an overruling fate, found in Boethius an interpretation of life closely akin to the spirit of Christianity.

The Old English Boethius: with verse prologues and epilogues associated with King Alfred.

Wisdom, 11:21 Boethius provided a place for mathematics in the curriculum in the 6th century when he coined the term quadrivium to describe the study of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.