The composition of this work can be allotted to the period of the 540s and 550s. Cassiodorus deploys the psalms not only for the purposes of instruction in theology and hermeneutics, but also to inculcate a general education in eloquence. †
Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus, Roman statesman, wrote Chronicon, a universal history to 519, and Institutiones, a broad course of study for a monastery.
Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (circa 485 – circa 585), commonly known, served in the administration of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. Senator formed part of his surname, not his rank.