Episode 003 · Late antique · Faith and Reason
Boethius
The man who wrote The Consolation of Philosophy while waiting in custody to be executed.
1h 43m. Click a chapter to jump to it.
Chapters
- 00:00 Chapter 1. The House of Symmachus
- 09:42 Chapter 2. The Translator's Plan
- 18:18 Chapter 3. Ravenna and the Fall
- 26:11 Chapter 4. The Cell and the Woman
- 34:46 Chapter 5. The Wheel
- 43:23 Chapter 6. What Everyone Is Looking For
- 52:22 Chapter 7. Why the Wicked Do Well
- 1:01:32 Chapter 8. All at Once
- 1:12:42 Chapter 9. Where It Fails
- 1:21:50 Chapter 10. The Last Months
- 1:29:53 Chapter 11. What the Book Outlived
- 1:36:11 Chapter 12. What Philosophy Left Him With
What this episode does differently
It separates what the sources record from what is only reported, and gives a whole chapter to where the Consolation fails.