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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius was born in Rome around the year 475 C.E.

A learned man, he served his nation faithfully as a senator and consul. But the early sixth century was a period of perilous political instability, and Boethius was wrongly accused of treason by Ostrogoth King Theodoric.

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Imprisoned and sentenced to death, Boethius kept a prison diary chronicling his despair and inability to understand how such an unjust fate could make sense in a well-ordered universe.

Then help came—in the form, as Boethius tells it, of a mysterious and divine visitor to his cell: Lady Philosophy.

A being of superhuman dignity and beauty, she engages Boethius in a series of philosophical discourses that raise his consciousness to a better perception of the true nature of good and the vanity of his misery. So morally elevated by his new understanding of philosophy, he could face his predicament—including his ultimate executi

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