He published numerous transcriptions and commentaries of the works of Nicomachus, Porphyry, and Cicero, among others, and wrote extensively on matters concerning music, mathematics, and theology. In seeking to reconcile the teachings of Plato and Aristotle with Christian theology, Boethius sought to translate the entirety of the Greek classics for Western scholars.
After mastering both Latin and Greek in his youth, Boethius rose to prominence as a statesman during the Ostrogothic Kingdom: becoming a senator by age 25, a consul by age 33, and later chosen as a personal advisor to Theodoric the Great. A member of the Anicii family, he was orphaned following the family's sudden decline and was raised by Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus, a later consul. Lewisīoethius was born in Rome a few years after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. Virtually all medieval philosophy, particularly Ennodius, Ĭassiodorus, Eriugena, Alfred, Abelard, Anselm of Canterbury, Magnus, Aquinas, Ockham, Dante, Chaucer and later More, Elizabeth I, Burke, Marie, MacDonald, Tolkien, C.S.
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