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Cassiodorus

c. 485 – c. 585 · b. Scylletium
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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 Hippo
    Cassiodorus' Expositio Psalmorum is built on Augustine's Enarrationes in Psalmos.
    Cassiodorus, Expositio Psalmorum, praefatio
  • knew of Boethius
    Cassiodorus and Boethius served together at the Ostrogothic court of Theodoric; Cassiodorus' Variae include letters drafted for Boethius.
    Cassiodorus, Variae 1.45

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