boethius and the consolation of philosophy

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Benedict, Boethius was born in 480 AD and served as a Roman senator and then as consul under the barbarian king Theodoric the Great. In this concise course, Josh Gibbs (humanities educator at the Veritas School in Richmond) introduces us to an important great book in the classical tradition: The Consolation of Philosophyby Boethius.

Boethius and the consolation of philosophy