Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar.
Her instruction on the nature of fortune and happiness, good and evil, fate and free will,.
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