Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy is a primary late antique philosophical text; the atlas records no publisher and no publication year because it survives through manuscript transmission from antiquity rather than a single dated modern edition. Its strength is that it is the actual text, written by its author while awaiting execution, giving it a documented and unusual biographical context behind its own argument. Its limit is the ordinary one for reading any ancient philosophical text without specifying a translation: this record does not establish which edition or translation underlies a given quotation from it.
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Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy, the top tier reflecting that it is the actual primary late antique text itself, written by its author while awaiting execution, an unusually documented biographical context behind its own argument. Its limit is the ordinary one for any ancient text cited with no translation specified: this record does not establish which edition or translation underlies a given quotation from it. NotesBoethius's foundational late antique philosophical text written while awaiting execution.
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AuthorBoethius
Source Typeprimary-text
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- Deities, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
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