On the Consolation of Philosophy (),Knowles, David (1967). "Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus", The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Paul Edwards, v. 1, p. 329. often titled as The Consolation of Philosophy or simply the Consolation, is a philosophical work by the Roman philosopher Boethius. Written in 523 while he was imprisoned and awaiting execution by the Ostrogothic King Theodoric, it is often described as the last great Western work of the Classical Period. Boethius' Consolation heavily influenced the philosophy of late antiquity, as well as Medieval and early Renaissance Christianity.The Consolation of Philosophy (Oxford World's Classics), Introduction (2000)Dante placed Boethius the "last of the Romans and first of the Scholastics" among the doctors in his Paradise (see The Divine Comedy) (see also below).
On the Consolation of Philosophy (),Knowles, David (1967). "Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus", The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Paul Edwards, v 1, p. 329 often titled as The Consolation of Philosophy or simply the Consolation, is a philosophical work by the Roman philosopher Boethius. Written in 523 while he was imprisoned and awaiting execution by the Ostrogothic King Theodoric, it is often described as the last great Western work of the Classical Period. Boethius' Consolation heavily influenced the philosophy of late antiquity, as well as Medieval and early Renaissance Christianity.The Consolation of Philosophy (Oxford World's Classics), Introduction (2000)Dante placed Boethius the "last of the Romans and first of the Scholastics" among the doctors in his Paradise (see The Divine Comedy) (see also below).