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Boethius
Roman senator and philosopher of the early 6th century (480–524)
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A Roman senator who fell from palace advisor to prison cell, where he wrote a meditation on fate and fortune that outlasted the kingdom that killed him.
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Born around 480 AD into the Anicii family just after the last Western Roman emperor fell, Boethius was orphaned young and raised by a consul who saw to his education in Greek and Latin. He climbed swiftly through Ostrogothic power — senator by 25, consul by 33, then advisor to Theodoric the Great — while undertaking a vast project to translate the Greek classics for a Latin world losing touch with its sources. His commentaries on Nicomachus, Porphyry, and Cicero, and his work on music, mathematics, and theology, aimed to reconcile Plato and Aristotle with Christian thought; though unfinished,…
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