Cassiodorus
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Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator, commonly known as Cassiodorus, was a Roman statesman, scholar, and writer who served in the administration of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. Senator
Cassiodorus (Gesta Theodorici: Leiden, University Library, Ms. vul. 46, fol. 2r), dated 1177
Vivarium from the Bamberg manuscript of the Institutiones Patr. 61, fol. 29v
Boethius
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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
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…James O'Donnell notes: [I]t is almost indisputable that he accepted advancement in 523 as the immediate successor of Boethius, who was then falling from grace after less than a year as magister officiorum, and who was sent to prison and later executed. In addition, Boethius…
Medieval illustration of Boethius
Consular diptych depicting Narius Manlius Boethius, Boethius's birth father
Boethius (right) and his adoptive father, Symmachus (left); both had been appointed consuls in their own right.
Manuscript depicting Boethius teaching students (initial) and while imprisoned