Kommentar zu Boethius, 'De consolatione philosophiae'

Boethius’ Consolatio Philosophiae represents a climax in the philosophy of Late Antiquity, and in its combination of prose and multiple lyric forms it gives us a remarkable document of Latin literature, the effects of which on following generations can hardly be measured. This commentary, which after its original publication in 1978 is now presented in a revised and enlarged second edition, is regarded as one of the standard works in Late Latin philological studies.


Joachim Gruber, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.