Description
An exploration of Boethius' social, political background, his notion of philosophy and its sources, and his understanding of the relationship between Christianity and classical culture.
About the Author
Antonio Donato is Assistant Professor of Medieval Philosophy, Queens College, CUNY, USA. He has a DPhil from Oxford University and a PHD from the University of Padua.
Reviews
Donato presents Boethius's well-known Consolation of Philosophy in a strikingly new way, by stressing its author's consciousness of himself as a Roman aristocrat, with very specific values and obligations. This thesis is developed into a reinterpretation of how Philosophy consoles, and how Boethius conveys his message through poetry and images as well as argument. -- Professor John Marenbon, Trinity College, Cambridge, UK
Antonio Donato's trenchant analysis of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy as a "product" of Late Antiquity includes fresh and important insights which aid in resolving many of the traditional exegetical difficulties readers have had with this text. Historians, philosophers, and theologians will surely profit from this new reading of Boethius -- William E. Carroll, University of Oxford, UK
This is an important book. With it-and in the company of his three substantial and near-contemporary articles on Consolation, modestly unrecorded in his bibliography-Donato emerges as a new and powerful voice in Boethian studies. -- Joel C. Relihan, Wheaton College, USA * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
Book Information
ISBN 9781474228572
Author Antonio Donato
Format Paperback
Page Count 232
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 331g