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History of Philosophy Audio Archive
Consolatio #3 - Book 2: Fortune's Wheel, the Lesser and Greater Teachers of Virtue, Fate and Goodness, and How Mixed with Bitterness is the Sweetness of Man's Life
Mar 16, 2025
46:01
A Creative Commons Zero (unrestricted free public domain use) production of Boethius' "Consolation of Philosophy" read by the host, William Engels.
This is Book 2, "Fortune's Wheel".
Translation is WV Cooper, with host amendments for style and clarity.
https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/boethius/jkok/2p1_u.htm
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