Awaiting execution, Boethius is consoled by Lady Philosophy on fortune, happiness, and providence. The most influential philosophical work of the Middle Ages.
Books mentioned in The Consolation of Philosophy (2)
Physics by Aristotle: “Our good Aristotle,' says she, 'has defined it concisely in his "Physics," and closely in accordance with the truth.”
Timaeus by Plato: “Well, since, as Plato maintains in the "Timaeus," we ought even in the most trivial matters to implore the Divine protection, what thinkest thou should we now do in order to deserve to find the seat of that highest good?”
Books that mention The Consolation of Philosophy (2)
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett: “Philip was turning the possibilities over and over in his mind, and looking at but not reading Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy.”
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon: “While Boethius, oppressed with fetters, expected each moment the sentence or the stroke of death, he composed, in the tower of Pavia, the Consolation of Philosophy; a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully”