Abstract

Boethius was a laborious Roman of VI AD, who played an important role in transmitting Greek science and philosophy to Medieval Latin world. He was also influent in medieval Western philosophy through his most known work The Consolation of Philosophy. Not less, Boethius left a deep mark in Christian theology and provided the basis for the development of mathematics, music, logic, and dialectic in medieval Latin schools. He devoted his life to political affairs as the first minister of the Ostrogothic regime of Theodoric in Italy together with looking for Greek wisdom to devote translations, commentaries, and treatises. During the twenty century his academic modus operandi has been matter of discussion as well as his Christian faith, but there are many reasons to defend that his academic work was not a servile translation of Greek sources, and many evidences attesting that his Christian faith and compromise with the Roman Church of his time was effective. His father in law Symmachus, whose daughter Rusticiana Boethius married, seems to have been of the most importance to his political and academic career, and in the Contra Eutychen, one of his theological treatises, he gives a passing allusion of their political involvement.