Immortal Meals #21: The Fish That Killed An Emperor March 3, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient
***thanks to Tacitus from Detritus for sending this one in*** Symmachus and the far more famous Boethius were Roman nobles after the end of the Roman empire, an uncomfortable time to be ‘senators’. Boethius fell into disgrace with the emperor Theoderic: he essentially got into trouble for defending, in the law courts, an enemy of Theoderic. […]
Boethius’s Astronomy: Did it Exist? October 4, 2011
Author: Beach Combing | in : MedievalBeach has always had a thing about Boethius (obit 525). Boethius penned the great Consolation of Philosophy, a strangely affecting study of human priorities, while waiting for his execution. Boethius hovers between Neo-Platonism and Christianity: he is, in some senses, the missing link between the two religions. Then Boethius also wrote books that do not […]
