The Consolation of Philosophy

Synopsis

An accessible translation of the classic writings that influenced chaucer and danteboethius was an eminent public figure under the gothic emperor theodoric, and an exceptional greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in pavia, it was to the greek philosophers that he turned. Extremely popular throughout medieval europe, the consolation was 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.