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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: 520 deaths, 521 deaths, 522 deaths, 523 deaths, 524 deaths, 525 deaths, 526 deaths, 527 deaths, 528 deaths, 529 deaths, Theodoric the Great, Justin I, Thrasamund, Pope Hormisdas, Pope John I, Ammonius Hermiae, Procopius of Gaza, Boethius, Empress Dowager Hu, Eutharic, Brigit of Kildare, Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei, Vakhtang I of Iberia, Mazdak, Vitalian, Euphemia, Yuan Hao, Magnus Felix Ennodius, John of Cappadocia, Ailbe of Emly, Jacob of Serugh, Yuan Yong, Avitus of Vienne, Yuan Cha, Chlodomer, Jabalah IV ibn al-Harith, Philoxenus of Mabbug, Theodosius the Cenobiarch, Anicia Juliana, Sigismund of Burgundy, Muryeong of Baekje, Yuan Zhao, Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus, Patriarch Timothy I of Constantinople, Jacob of Saruq, Apollinaris of Valence, Paul of Edessa, Eochaid mac Oengusa, Ahkal Mo' Naab' I, Kessog, Ichadon, Zhou She, Congar of Congresbury, Arethas, Ardgal mac Conaill, Gyeomji of Geumgwan Gaya, Viventiolus, Zu Gengzhi, Justus of Urgell, Mesmin, Vitonus, Baderic, Avinita. Excerpt: Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, commonly called Boethius (ca. 480-524 or 525) was a philosopher of the early 6th century. He was born in Rome to an ancient and important family which included emperors Petronius Maximus and Olybrius and many consuls. His father, Flavius Manlius Boethius, was consul in 487 after Odoacer deposed the last Western Roman Emperor. Boethius, of the noble Anicius lineage, entered public life at a young age and was already a senator by the age of 25. Boethius himself was consul in 510 in the kingdom of the Ostrogoths. In 522 he saw his two sons become consuls. Boethius was imprisoned and eventually executed by King Theodoric the Great, who suspected him of conspiring with the Eastern Empire. While jailed, Boethius composed his Consolation of Philosophy, a philosophical treatise on fortune, dea...