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Restoring Lost Songs: Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy

 

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Recommended editions

Latin

  • L. Bieler (ed.), Anicii Manlii Severini Boethii Philosophiae Consolatio, ed. L. Bieler, Boethius, Opera 1, Corpus Christianorum Series Latina 94 (Turnhout: Brepols), 1957 (rev. edn., 1984).
  • C. Moreschini (ed.), Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae, Opuscula theologica(Munich and Leipzig: K. G. Saur, Bibliotheca Teubneriana), 2000 (2nd edn. 2005).
  • for a conspectus metrorum, K. Büchner (ed.), Philosophiae consolationis libri quinque: Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, Editiones Heidelbergensis 11 (Heidelberg: Winter), 1947 (3rd edn., 1977), pp. 118–121.

English

  • for a Latin-English parallel presentation, H. F. Stewart, E. K. Rand and S. J. Tester (ed. and trans.) Boethius. The Theological Tractates. The Consolation of Philosophy Loeb Classical Library 74 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press), 1973.
  • for a modern prose English translation, P.G. Walsh (trans.), Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy (Oxford: Clarendon Press), 1999.
  • for a prose translation with poetic rendering of the Latin verse passages, J. C. Relihan (trans.), Boethius: Consolation of Philosophy (Indianapolis, Ind. and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing) 2001.