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Consolation #1: 100 Reviewers Special! The Consolation of Philosophy - An Experiment in Reading Boethius, Part 1: Introduction
Published 1 year ago
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We did it! 100 reviews on Spotify!
To celebrate, we are kicking off an open-source audiobook project celebrating Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, a deathbed prose poem written at the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the birth of what is (somewhat unfortunately, but not for no reason called) the Dark Ages.
00:00:00 Announcement
00:08:36 Scholarly Introduction to the Consolation
This introduction is found in the Ignatius Critical Edition of Boethius, and the public domain text we will be using for the reading is the WV Cooper translation which can be found here:https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924073630026&seq=11