Cassiodorus
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.
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Cassiodorus (c. 485–c. 585) was a Roman statesman and scholar who held high office under the Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great before later turning to Christian learning and founding the Vivarium monastery. He matters because he bridged the classical Roman world and the early Christian medieval period, preserving knowledge through his writings and monastic work during a time of significant cultural transition.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- ca. 487
- Died
- ca. 580.
- Works
- 61
Top works
- Grazie a te, Signore
- Le dignità de' consoli, e de gl' imperadori, e i fatti de' Romani, e dell' accrescimento dell' imperio
- Opera omnia
- M. Aurelii Cassiodori Senatoris v. c. Opera Omnia quae extant
- Ecclesiastice [et] tripartite hystorie
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- Cassiodorus
- Saint.honorific prefix
- Servant of God
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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.
== Life == Cassiodorus was born at Scylletium, near present-day Catanzaro in the Calabria region of Italy, into a family of Syrian origin. His ancestry included some of the most prominent ministers of the state extending back several generations. His great-grandfather held a command in the defense of the coasts of southern Italy from Vandal sea-raiders in the middle of the fifth century; his grandfather appears in a Roman embassy to Attila the Hun, and his father (who bore the same name) served as comes sacrarum largitionum and comes rerum privatarum to Odovacer and as Praetorian Prefect to Theoderic the Great.