The Consolation of Philosophy / Edition 1

The Consolation of Philosophy / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
0872205835
ISBN-13:
9780872205833
Pub. Date:
09/01/2001
Publisher:
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN-10:
0872205835
ISBN-13:
9780872205833
Pub. Date:
09/01/2001
Publisher:
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
The Consolation of Philosophy / Edition 1

The Consolation of Philosophy / Edition 1

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Overview

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 period leading up to his brutal execution, it is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisoner and his 'nurse' Philosophy, whose instruction on the nature of fortune and happiness, good and evil, fate and free will, restores his health and brings him to enlightenment.

The clarity of Boethius's thought and his breadth of vision made The Consolation of Philosophy hugely popular throughout medieval Europe and his ideas suffused the thought of Chaucer and Dante. This translation makes it accessible to the modern reader while losing nothing of Boethius's poetic artistry and philosophical brilliance.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780872205833
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date: 09/01/2001
Series: Hackett Classics Series
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 250
Sales rank: 732,006
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Joel C. Relihan is Professor of Classics, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts. He is also author of The Prisoner's Philosophy: Life and Death in Boethius' Consolation (The University of Notre Dame Press, 2006).

Table of Contents

Prefaceviii
Introductionxi
IIntroductoryxi
IIBoethius' Life and Writingsxiii
IIIThe Consolation of Philosophyxxii
IVThe Christianity of Boethiusxxxii
VThe Textxxxv
Book I3
Book II22
Book III47
Book IV85
Book V116
Bibliography139
Glossary143

What People are Saying About This

A remarkable translation of one of the great masterpieces of philosophical literature.

Henry Taylor

This is a sensitive and readable translation, whose poetic merits place it beyond other translations of Boethius's great text.

Gail Holst-Warhaft

A remarkable translation of one of the great masterpieces of philosophical literature.
Gail Holst-Warhaft, Cornell University

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