ABSTRACT
Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boethius (ca. 480-ca. 524), Roman consul under the reign of Theodoric the Ostrogoth, was a Christian Neoplatonist philosopher and theologian credited with ensuring the transmission of Aristotle and Aristotelian terms and concepts to the later medieval Scholastics.1 Boethius set before himself the goal of translating into Latin all of the works of Plato and Aristotle accessible to him in Rome, and, although he did not accomplish this task, he did translate Porphyry’s Isagoge and the entirety of Aristotle’s Organon (the Categories, On Interpretation, the Prior Analytics, the Posterior Analytics, the Topics, and On Sophistical Refutations).2 Boethius is considered by many the last Roman in ancient times capable of reading and translating the works of Greek philosophy into the Latin language.
