Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
Cycle 04 — Theology.
Framing
A short public-facing blurb for this reading goes here: why the late-Roman senator’s prison-cell dialogue with Lady Philosophy is the cycle’s answer to Marcus — what Logos turns into when it has become flesh, written by a man facing execution.
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.