Cassiodorus
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Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (c. 485 – c. 585), commonly known as Cassiodorus, was a Roman statesman and writer, serving in the administration of Theoderic the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. Senator was part of his surname, not his rank.
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Works
- Laudes (very fragmentary published panegyrics on public occasions)
- Chronica, (ending at 519) uniting all world history in one sequence of rulers, a union of Goth and Roman antecedents, flattering Goth sensibilities as the sequence neared the date of composition
- Gothic History (526-533), survives only in Jordanes' abridgment, which must be considered a separate work
- Variae epistolae (537), Theoderic's state papers. Editio princeps by M. Accurius (1533). English translations by Thomas Hodgkin The Letters of Cassiodorus (1886); S.J.B. Barnish Cassiodorus: Variae (Liverpool: University Press, 1992) ISBN 0-85323-436-1
- Expositio psalmorum (Exposition of the Psalms)
- De anima ("On the Soul") (540)
- Institutiones Divinarum et Saecularium Litterarum (543-555)
- De Artibus ac Disciplinis Liberalium Litterarum ("On the Liberal Arts")
- Codex Grandior (a version of the Bible)
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