Cassiodorus
487 –583
Politician, Historian, Musicologist, Writer, Music theorist, Philosopher
Lived 96 years
- Born in
- Scylletium
- Passed away in
- Scylletium
Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (c. 485 – c. 585), commonly known as Cassiodorus (), was a Roman statesman, scholar, and writer who served in the administration of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. Senator was part of his surname, not his rank. In his later years, he devoted himself to Christian learning and founded the Vivarium monastery, where he worked extensively during the final decades of his life.
Notable works: Institutiones divinarum et saecularium litterarum, Anecdoton Holderi, History of the Goths, Historia ecclesiastica tripartita, Chronicle, De artibus ac disciplinis liberalium litterarum, Codex Grandior, Laudes
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