Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year AD 524. It has been described as the single most important and influential work in the West in Medieval and early Renaissance Christianity, and is also the last great work that can be called Classical.

Some Images from the life and teachings of Boethius


This early printed book has many hand-painted illustrations depicting Lady Philosophy and scenes of daily life in fifteenth-century Ghent (1485)



From a 1385 Italian manuscript of the Consolation: Miniatures of Boethius teaching and in prison



Lady Fortune with the Wheel of Fortune in a medieval manuscript of a work by Boccaccio; Consolation of Philosophy was responsible for the popularity of the goddess of Fortune and the wheel of fortune in the Middle Ages