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On the Consolation of Philosophy at Standard Ebooks; Consolatio Philosophiae from Project Gutenberg, HTML conversion, originally translated by H. R. James, London 1897. Consolatio Philosophiae in the original Latin with English comments at the University of Georgetown
Seneca the Younger produced the most recognizable examples of consolatio in his three Consolations, Ad Marciam, Ad Polybium, and Ad Helviam Matrem. The most recognizable example of consolatio in verse form is the pseudo-Ovidian Consolatio ad Liviam. [4] In Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, Philosophy herself consoles the author in his sore ...
This Consolatio addresses Polybius, Emperor Claudius’ Literary Secretary, to console him on the death of his brother. The essay contains Seneca’s Stoic philosophy, with particular attention to the inescapable reality of death.
The Consolation of Philosophy was a sixth-century Latin work and is considered one of the most important works of philosophy from the Middle Ages. A translation associated with Alfred's reign would be consistent with his avowed aims to circulate translations of the Consolation and other philosophical and historical works for the education of ...
Consolation is an important topic arising in history, the arts, philosophy, and psychology. In the field of medicine , consolation has been broadly described as follows: Before and after fundamental medicine offers diagnoses, drugs, and surgery to those who suffer, it should offer consolation.
The Consolatio was of major importance, and Scourfield argues that it is the distinct work that introduced the Greek consolatio tradition to the Romans of the late Republic. [12] The work may have survived well into the 15th century; St. Ambrose Traversari claimed in his Hodoeporicon to have discovered "a short work about consolation ...
Peter of Kastl (c. 1400) was a ... composed a translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy ... in 1958 as the translator of the Consolatio Philosophiae ...
Pseudo-Plutarch is the conventional name given to the actual, ... Consolatio ad Apollonium ... an important source for pre-Socratic philosophy, ...