Boethius — Wellsprings

Boethius

c. 477 CE–c. 524 CE · Rome

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius was a Roman philosopher and statesman of the late 5th and early 6th century CE, who served under the Ostrogothic king Theodoric before being imprisoned and executed on a charge of treason. He is famous for 'The Consolation of Philosophy,' written in prison, and for translations and commentaries that transmitted much of Greek logic to the Latin Middle Ages. He is one of the most influential bridges between ancient and medieval thought.

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About Rome

Rome, on the Tiber in central Italy, grew from an Iron Age settlement into the capital of the Roman Republic and then of an empire that by the 1st century CE ruled the whole Mediterranean. Its Jewish community, attested from the 2nd century BCE, is among the oldest in Europe. Christian tradition holds that the apostles Peter and Paul died there, and the city became the seat of the popes. After the Western Empire ended in 476 it passed to Gothic kings, to Byzantium and then to papal rule as capital of the Papal States, until it became the capital of unified Italy in 1871. Vatican City, independent since 1929, lies within it.

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