Mind-Benders of Christian History
For 600 years, he was the only Aristotle the West had
Boethius, the Roman official executed around 524 CE, translated and explained Aristotle's works on logic into Latin. Because the rest of Aristotle was lost to the West or not yet translated, his renderings were essentially the only Aristotle available in Western Europe for roughly six centuries — until a wave of new translations arrived in the late 1100s.
How we know
Boethius d. c. 524 CE; his Latin translations of Aristotle's logic were nearly the sole basis for Aristotle in the Latin West until the later 12th century (~600 years).
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