Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy

Name: Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy
Author: Boethius

by Boethius · translated by Julian K. Morrow

A new English translation, made directly from the original language.

The greatest book ever written in a prison cell. Condemned to death on a false charge, a Roman statesman is visited by Philosophy herself, who argues him back from despair, through fortune, happiness, the problem of evil, and free will. Complete and fresh from the Latin, the prose and all thirty-nine poems.

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