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Cassiodorus
c. 485 – c. 585 · b. Scylletium
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Quick facts
- Born
- c. 485, Scylletium
- Died
- c. 585, Vivarium
- Region
- west
- Era
- post nicene
- Significance
- Notable(2/4)
- Also known as
- Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator
Highlights
- Main contribution
- Roman statesman who founded the monastery of Vivarium in Calabria.
- Primary source
- Cassiodorus, Institutiones Divinarum et Saecularium Litterarum
Roman statesman who founded the monastery of Vivarium in Calabria. His Institutiones preserved classical and Christian learning; wrote a commentary on the Psalms and the Historia Ecclesiastica Tripartita.
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Sources for biography
- Cassiodorus, Institutiones Divinarum et Saecularium Litterarum primary
- Cassiodorus, Expositio Psalmorum primary
documented connections(2)
- cited Augustine of HippoCassiodorus' Expositio Psalmorum is built on Augustine's Enarrationes in Psalmos.Cassiodorus, Expositio Psalmorum, praefatio
- knew of BoethiusCassiodorus and Boethius served together at the Ostrogothic court of Theodoric; Cassiodorus' Variae include letters drafted for Boethius.Cassiodorus, Variae 1.45
External resources
📖WikipediaFull encyclopedic biography with footnotes and further reading.🔗WikidataStructured data hub linking to library catalogues, archives, and academic sources worldwide.🏛️WikisourcePublic-domain primary texts and translations (search).⛪Catholic Encyclopedia1913 reference — long entries, useful for less-known figures (search for Cassiodorus).