Boethius (480-524)

Major work

•          The Consolation of Philosophy

Importance

•          Bridged gap b/t ancient and medieval eras

•          Known as “the last of the Romans and the first of the scholastics”

•          Explained Trinity in Aristotelian categories

•          God is one with the three persons viewed as internal relations

•          Attempted to translate Plato and Aristotle into Latin