Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar.
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The Consolation was extremely popular throughout medieval Europe and his ideas were influential on the thought of Chaucer and Dante.
Her instruction on the nature of fortune and happiness, good and evil, fate and free will, restore his health and bring him to enlightenment.
It is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisoner and his \'nurse\' Philosophy.
The Consolation was written in the period leading up to his brutal execution.
When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned.
Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar
