Cassiodorus
6th-century Roman senator and scholar
b. c. 487 · d. 583
Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator, 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.
Related people
- Cassiodorus Patricius child of · traditional
- Licinian of Cartagena influenced · traditional
Works
- Historia ecclesiastica tripartita 550
- Variae
- Institutiones divinarum et saecularium litterarum
- Chronicle 519
- History of the Goths 6th century
- Anecdoton Holderi
- Gothic History
- De anima 540
- De orthographia 580
- Complexiones epistularum et actuum apostolorum 6th century
- De artibus ac disciplinis liberalium litterarum
- Laudes
- Expositio psalmorum
Events
Places
- Scylletium death
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Institutions of Divine and Secular Learning, and the Variae 1 claim — Cassiodorus founds Vivarium