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'''Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator''' ([[Scylaceum]] ([[Kalabrje]]), ± [[484]]/[[490]] - kleaster Vivarium by [[Scylaceum]], ± [[585]]), ornaris bekend as '''Kassiodorus''', wie in Romeinske steatsman (''praefectus praetorio''), skriuwer en rjochtsgelearde. Hy wie skriuwer fan [[Diderik de Grutte]], kening fan de [[Ostrogoaten]].
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Kassiodorus waard berne yn [[Scylletium]], tichtby [[Catanzaro]] yn it suden fan [[Itaalje]]. Hy sette syn wurkpaad útein as adviseur foar syn heit, dy't gûverneur wie fan [[Sisylje]], en ûntwikkelewaard himselsop trochjonge makke namme asleeftyd jurist doe't hy noch heam and made a name for himself while still very young as learned in the law. Tidens syn wurksûmewurksume libben as [[quaestor]] s.tusken 507-511, as a [[konsul]] yn 514, dêrnei as ''[[magister officiorum]]'' ûnder Diderik, en dêrnei tidensûnder it regintskip foarfan Dideriks' jonge opfolger, [[Atalarik]], fersammele Kassiodorus keptin copiousprotte recordsynformaasje andoer letterbookssyn concerningtiid publicen affairslei it fêst op skrift. AtOp theit GothicGotyske courthof, like syn literêre bekwaamheden ary skill that seems sosa mannered anden rhetoricalretorysk todat ait modernmoderne readerlêzer wasopfalt. accountedAlle sokearen remarkableas that,er whenever he was inyn [[Ravenna]] kaam, significantwaarden publicwichtige documentsoffisjele weredokuminten oftenoan entrustedhim totafertrouwe himom fortekene draftingte wurden kinne. HisSyn wurkpaad waard ôfsletten culminatingmei appointmentde wasbeneaming as [[praetorian prefect]] forfoar ItalyItaalje, effectivelywat thetsjintwurdich primeoerienkomt ministershipmei ofearste theminister, Ostrogothicde civilheechste governmentamtlike andfunksje. a high honor to finish any career.
Atalarik stoar yn 534, en de rest fan Kassiodorus' publike funksje waard karakterisearre troch de de Byzantynske ferovering fan Itaalje en dynastike yntriges fan de Ostrogoaten. Syn lêste brieven skreau hy yn namme fan Witigis. De opfolger fan Kassiodorus waard beneamd fanút Konstantinopel.
Athalaric died in early 534, and the remainder of Cassiodorus' public career was engulfed by the Byzantine reconquest and dynastic intrigue among the Ostrogoths. His last letters were drafted in the name of [[Witigis]]. Cassiodorus' successor was appointed from Constantinople.
Om-ende-by 537-38, ruilet hy Itaalje yn foar Konstantinopel en bliuwt der sawat twa desennia's en hâld him meastentiids dwaande mei godstsjinstige kwestjes. Hy moetet dêr Junilius, tdede quaestor fan keizer Justinianus. Syn konstantinopolitean ferslach hat bydjourney contributed to the improvement of his religious knowledge.
In grut part fan syn wurkpaad hat er him dwaande holden de kulturele ferskillen te oerbrêgen dy't feroarsake waard troch fersnippering yn de [[6e ieu]] tusken East en West, Gryksk en Latyn, Romeinsk en Goatysk, en de kristlike befolking mei harren [[Arianisme|Ariaanske]] lieders. Hy e speaks leafdefol yn his ''Institutiones'' of [[Dionysius Exiguus]], the calculator of the [[Anno Domini]] era.
In his retirement he the monastery of ''Vivarium'' on his family estates on the shores of the [[Ionian Sea]], and his writings turned to religion. The twin structure of the ''Vivarium'' was to permit [[coenobitic]] monks and hermits to coexist. Cassiodorus also established a library where, at the very close of the classical period, he attempted to bring Greek learning to Latin readers and preserve texts both sacred and secular for future generations. As its unofficial [[librarian]], Cassiodorus not only collected as many manuscripts as he could, he also wrote treatises aimed at instructing his monks in the proper uses of reading and methods for copying texts accurately. In the end, however, the library at ''Vivarium'' was dispersed and lost, though it was still active ca. 630, when the monks brought the relics of [[Agathius|Saint Agathius]] from Constantinople, to whom they dedicated a spring-fed fountain shrine that still exists.<ref>[http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/9891/otherlinks.html Select Abstracts<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
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