Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
Cycle 04 — Theology.
Framing
Boethius wrote the Consolation of Philosophy in a prison cell, awaiting execution: a Christian senator dying in dialogue with Lady Philosophy, the Greek tradition he could neither leave behind nor entirely belong to.
Editions
- Oxford World’s Classics: The Consolation of Philosophy — translated by P.G. Walsh, with full introduction and explanatory notes. Walsh preserves the prosimetrum — Boethius’s alternating prose dialogues and verse meditations — by rendering the verses as English verse, keeping the formal architecture the work was built on.