“music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it even if we so desired.”
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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, commonly known simply as Boethius, was a Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, polymath, historian, and philosopher of the Early Middle Ages. He was a central figure in the translation of the Greek classics into Latin, a precursor to the Scholastic movement, and, along with Cassiodorus, one of the two leading Christian scholars of the 6th century. The loca…
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science · 6th-century Roman senator and philosopher (480–524 AD) · philosopher · writer · musicologist · music theorist · politician · mathematician · translator · also Boethius, Anicus Manlius Severinus Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius
Born 1 January 0480 · Died 0525 · Q102851
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“music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it even if we so desired.”
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Psychology Today: Boethius on Happiness
Published “Fish and resilience among Early Holocene foragers of southern Scandinavia: A fusion of stable isotopes and zooarchaeology through Bayesian mixing modelling” in Journal of Archaeological Science — cited 33 times.
The American Conservative: Benedict Vs. Boethius
Published “Something rotten in Scandinavia: The world's earliest evidence of fermentation” in Journal of Archaeological Science — cited 61 times.
The Boston Globe: In contradictory philosophy, Boethius influenced musical style
National Catholic Register: Boethius and Cassiodorus
Published “The Consolation of Philosophy” — cited 37 times.
Published “FDG-PET on irradiated brain tumor: ten years' summary” in Acta Radiologica — cited 48 times.
Published “De consolatione philosophiae. Opuscula theologica” — cited 54 times.
Published “Intratumoral infusion of the monoclonal antibody, mAb 425, against the epidermal-growth-factor receptor in patients with advanced malignant glioma” in Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy — cited 61 times.
Published “Differences in utilisation of asthma drugs between two neighbouring Swedish provinces: relation to prevalence of obstructive airway disease.” in Thorax — cited 37 times.
Published “Loss of heterozygosity in malignant gliomas involves at least three distinct regions on chromosome 10” in Human Genetics — cited 103 times.
Published “Tardive dyskinesia associated with metoclopramide.” in BMJ — cited 42 times.
Published “Recording of drug prescriptions in the county of J�mtland, Sweden” in European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology — cited 40 times.
A lunar crater was named in honor of Boethius
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Published “The Consolation of Philosophy” in Digital Loeb Classical Library — cited 33 times.
Edition of the Arithmetica, from the Cornell Library Historical Mathematics Monographs
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And in the Church of Santa Maria in Portico in Rome
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Confirming the diocese's custom of honoring him on 23 October
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Died 0525.
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“Mereka yang tidak tertangkap atas kejahatannya akan lebih menderita dibandingkan dengan mereka yang tertangkap.”
“Quis legem det amantibus?Maior lex amor est sibi.”
Career landmark: Roman consul (0510–0511).
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Career landmark: ancient Roman senator (0505–0510).
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Born 0480-01-01.
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