He was subsequently arrested and executed. When one of Boethius’s colleagues, Albinus, found himself accused of treason, Boethius stepped in to defend Albinus and was accused of the same crime. He also sought to demonstrate that their schools of thought “in every way harmonize.” However, a set of political conflicts cut his life tragically short. Nevertheless, Boethius likely passed most of his days reading and translating philosophy, and made it his personal project to translate all of Aristotle and Plato’s works from Greek to Latin. Boethius became a Senator at 25 and a consul-one of the Senate’s two leaders-at 33. He went on to spend his entire adult life as a bureaucrat in the service of the Ostrogoth King Theodoric, who presided over a hollowed-out version of the previous Empire. Although the Roman Empire fell around the same time, in 476, his family’s privilege and the internal dynamics of Roman society were not drastically affected, and Boethius had many doors open to him from early childhood. Boethius was born to an aristocratic Christian family in Rome, sometime between 475 and 477.
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