Marcus Aurelius - The Philosopher Emperor #17 Roman History Documentary Series

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@TheSPQRHistorian 2 года назад

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@aug-pahunters51 Год назад

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@bawsack69 9 месяцев назад

"Sequester carbon" loool

@jaybabcock4557 7 месяцев назад

I am trying to raise my carbon foot print. Global warming wait cooling no wait climate change is not real.

@charlessmith6136 5 месяцев назад

climate change is a lie

@MegaTang1234 2 года назад

The co-emperorship of Marcus and Lucius Verus is truly amazing. It's rare for 2 emperors to get along, especially in Roman history. Its such a shame the Plague cut their broship short.

@aegonii8471 2 года назад

Not tryna be negative or anything but we don’t know what Lucius Verus would’ve become

@Yrathus 2 года назад

Was Lucius ever doing anything ? Wasn’t he a huge slob, or something like that ?

@JamesJJSMilton Год назад

@@Yrathus Lucius Verus was famois for his love of Doritos, and had an entire legion of slaves to constantly supply his gamer cave

@Yrathus Год назад

@@JamesJJSMilton yes 🙌 and left all the work to Marcus Aurelius lmao

@histguy101 Год назад

@@Yrathus Yeah, but he always gets excused for it by historians for some reason. He had a big band of messengers that would travel back and forth across the Mediterranean to keep him updated on racing stats at the hippodrome so he could place his bets, all while he was "campaigning against the Persians."

@youvebeengreeked 2 года назад

*The wait is over; Plato's perfect Philosopher-King is here. :')*

@TheSPQRHistorian 2 года назад

Yeah It only happens once in a million years, all the stars have to align

@kerosam763 2 года назад

Not perfect because his son Commodus was a horrible emperor. Marcus should have groomed a better successor and given more thought to the succession

@mism847 2 года назад

@@kerosam763 I think he was afraid of what would happen to Commodus, though. If he had picked another emperor, Commodus could be seen as a real threat to his rule and he may have been executed. Also, he probably didn't expect Commodus to be as bad as he became.

@jusu8961 2 года назад

@@mism847 see how morals get in the way, for marcus to have been perfect he wouldve had to possibly kill his own son if he deemed him unfit to rule, in order to guarantee the transfer of power to another successor

@theone-tg4ey 2 года назад

😏🌞❤️ based and philosopher leader pilled

@diegoherrera7785 2 года назад

Marcus Aurelius would've been the perfect emperor if he didn't messed up his succession.

@Kanfachan 2 года назад

Could you kill your own child?

@VoidLantadd 8 месяцев назад

Or debase the currency.

@acefrehley28 7 месяцев назад

In his defense he tried to give the purple to Maximus... 😂

@MalleusIudaeorum 2 года назад

This channel is gonna be huge by next year. You’ve been putting out great content for a while and make improvements with every video so I hope you don’t get disheartened with views or anything for now mate, it’s clear you put a lot of effort into these videos. Rome is extremely popular though and you’re one of the few channels who put out exclusively Roman content so I think you’ll do fine. Most channels who cover Roman History only barely touch on the late republic, Caesar and the odd emperor here and there. It’s hard to find any good Roman history on RU-vid besides the already widely covered areas of Roman History.

@TheSPQRHistorian 2 года назад

Thank you, really appreciate that! I'll keep releasing content because I really love Roman History and I like doing the videos :)

@mism847 2 года назад

This is one out of two channels where I actually look forward to and wait for a new video. For every other channel, I don't really care.

@i_smoke_ghosts 10 месяцев назад

das ist gut ja !

@danc8458 6 месяцев назад

Damb nice prediction lil guy. Next time just shhhh

@MalleusIudaeorum 6 месяцев назад

@@danc8458 lol your dad definitely touched you inappropriately

@Hilversumborn 2 года назад

He’s the straight A student who later on inherited everything and to deal with one bad situation after another yet manages to keep it all together

@michaelheath5615 2 года назад

...and chuck it all away by letting his only tragic flaw- pride in fatherhood- dictate his only poor decision (and what a whopper it was), which was to have his biological son, Commodus, despite his knowledge of his shortcomings, succed him, ending the line of the 'Five Good (also called the Adoptive) Emperors', leading to a good time being had by all.

@808_rafa 2 года назад

Isn’t it ironic that one of the greatest leaders in the whole of the empire would give life to the one who would begging the decline?

@TheSPQRHistorian 2 года назад

It is ironic, and really sad to see the sharp contrast Commodus was from his two predecessors, Antoninus and Marcus Aurelius - who probably were the two emperors with the best morals.

@Liquidsback 2 года назад

See Roger II of Sicily...

@michaelheath5615 2 года назад

And yet, so predictable, and true to form for every dynasty ever.

@evanobrien7316 2 года назад

Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times.

@saxogrammaticus3917 Год назад

@@evanobrien7316 that is if the individual INTERNALIZES this..

@Gwaithmir 2 года назад

I had the good fortune of finding a copy of Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations" in an old bookstore. It had been published in the late 1880's and, aside from a bit of age discoloration, it was in mint condition. I paid only $4 for it.

@WeedsAvabel 2 года назад

Best version of Meditation is the one translated by Hays

@marcusnelson3520 Год назад

@@WeedsAvabelwhat makes it the best?

@Pazaluz 8 месяцев назад

Wow! That's a steal! I bought a modern one and it's one of the best decisions to get this book.

@benseven5180 2 года назад

I was already antcipating a Video about Marcus Aurelius, as he's my Favorite roman Empor and philosophor. Keep Up the great quality of the content, i also really Like the longer Format.

@TheSPQRHistorian 2 года назад

Thanks Ben! Will do!

@ionutpaun9828 2 года назад

This is an excellent video and the channel is excellent too. Well done!

@TheSPQRHistorian 2 года назад

Thank you very much!

@tonyarceneaux286 2 года назад

@@TheSPQRHistorian I just became your latest subscriber.

@markp44288 2 года назад

Your best video so far by a MILE!!! Wow!!! Worthy of the Philosopher King for sure.

@TheSPQRHistorian 2 года назад

Thank you Mark! Glad you liked it

@microrest 2 года назад

Nice work. I'm so glad that you have come along. You don't realize how bad we were in need of such a nice presentation of Roman history. Good for you.

@ProbusVerus 2 года назад

Finally my hero and life inspiration! Best Roman Caesar!

@RENATVS_IV 2 года назад

Amazing documentary. I was sleepy before watching it and actually woke me up a little bit enough to get until the minute 40. I came back to watch it until the end. Bravo

@josephpiskac2781 2 года назад

Really interesting and remarkably well done. Thank You

@TheSPQRHistorian 2 года назад

Thank you Joseph! Glad you enjoyed it

@radonrodan8332 2 года назад

Got excited when I saw this

@petronilobuan4648 2 года назад

Your thoughts dyes your soul! Marcus Aurelius Emperor Stoic Philosopher of Rome

@hermanspaerman3490 2 года назад

Top notch. I started to watch and and all of a sudden I had watched it all in one go. With material like this this channel will grow in no time.

@TheSPQRHistorian 2 года назад

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

@thesmithsmaf 2 года назад

This is an exemplary piece of work and is greatly appreciated. I have subscribed and wish you much success in your future endeavours. Maf

@Steven-dt5nu Год назад

Thanks for your work guys. I have started with the Augustus video up to this point. Great maps. One of the only visuals we have for the time period.

@goodkingmike 2 года назад

Deep and excellent dive into the life of my favorite Emperor. Great job 👍

@TheSPQRHistorian 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@LiveinReykjavik 2 года назад

What a phenomenal video! And it gets better every time.

@TheSPQRHistorian 2 года назад

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it

@EasternRomanHistory 2 года назад

Once again, a fantastic video. A really good biography of Marcus Aurelius.

@TheSPQRHistorian 2 года назад

Thank you Daniel!

@Mozzza14 Год назад

Your videos are amazing!

@GabrielLopez-mo2xo 2 года назад

"There would be no commodus" One of the best phrases in English. If only it were true...

@borna8796 2 года назад

Grabs popcorn

@thepatriot6966 2 года назад

Over 50 minutes?! Be right back, imma make a cuppa tea. xD

@shanekent4896 2 года назад

excellent work, the quality of the video and the research shines

@TheSPQRHistorian 2 года назад

Thanks a lot 😊

@shanekent4896 2 года назад

@@TheSPQRHistorian your welcome, as someone who has started a youtube channel of his own, your quality is the stuff i aspire too

@yaboyed5779 2 года назад

Welcome back, can’t wait to get to Gallienus

@jimfranchetto3278 2 года назад

Fully excellent work. Thank you very much.

@TheSPQRHistorian 2 года назад

Many thanks!

@baadfc2022 8 месяцев назад

Brilliant video. Thank you :)

@rafaeldelgado2487 2 года назад

Great video my dude!!

@TheSPQRHistorian 2 года назад

Thank you my guy

@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658 2 года назад

The true Philosopher King!

@Graffitinyc1 2 года назад

Amazing video!!!!

@TheSPQRHistorian 2 года назад

Glad you liked it!!

@robstone9628 2 года назад

No matter how great Marcus Aurelius was, giving power to Commodus will always overshadow anything he did.

@optimusprinceps3526 2 года назад

Evidently didn't raise his son, Commodus right by the looks of it 📚

@shadowmihaiu 2 года назад

I have always thought there must be a hidden, much darker Marcus Aurelius, or at least a complete and unstated personal incompetence as a father. How could this amazing man otherwise have created the psychopath Commodus? Somewhere, somehow this history has been effectively sanitized.

@justinian-the-great 2 года назад

@@shadowmihaiu To be honest, Marcus had to spend much more time on state affairs, than on raising his son. Not to mention that he mostly wasn't even at home during Commodus's teen years, fighting a war against Marcomanni. It's very likely that, even though they were technically co-emperors since 177 AD, Commodus felt simply neglected and thus went of to become a violent man, like he eventually turned to be during his reign.

@aaronTGP_3756 Год назад

Such is with many great rulers. They spend so much time on the state that their children are neglected. Marcus Aurelius, Basil II, Pedro II, Charles V, and more come to mind.

@majorbob7211 10 месяцев назад

@@aaronTGP_3756Same for Henry II of England

@aaronTGP_3756 10 месяцев назад

@@majorbob7211 True. Richard and John were warmongering fools.

@Uncle_Fred 2 года назад

This is an excellent video. Production levels match anything the top RU-vid history channels can put out. Even better, the videos are very enaging and well researched. Keep up the good work. People will discover you if you keep up with level of content. You'll also build a great high-quality community with this kind of video work.

@TheSPQRHistorian 2 года назад

Thank you, glad you enjoy it!

@antitroll890 11 месяцев назад

36:20 for those who claimed Marcus Aurelius never expanded the empire

@tr7b410 Год назад

FAST lines of communication necessary to aquire information about combative vassels & their troop movements becomes apparent. Roman highways were not only for trade,but were the Empires life's blood, circulating its influence/troops over thousands of miles of territory.

@SaltyMinorcan 2 года назад

so good

@mattgrandich3977 24 дня назад

From Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations: 51. He who loves fame considers another man’s activity to be his own good; and he who loves pleasure, his own sensations; but he who has understanding, considers his own acts to be his own good.

@khameronsmith108 9 месяцев назад

I always find it interesting how many future emperors served alongside each other as generals

@bradleyclutton4564 2 года назад

Superb 👍

@TheSPQRHistorian 2 года назад

Thank you! Cheers!

@vmitchinson Год назад

One of my favorite quotes is "Your life is what your thoughts make"

@Ashley-5555 2 года назад

Loooove this thank you 🙏🏻❤️🤎

@TheSPQRHistorian 2 года назад

Glad you liked it!

@kimholzer8482 Год назад

I love you Wayne. Thanks for being the best guy I know!

@TheILoveScotch 2 года назад

Nice video

@TheJoshuamcgowan Год назад

Interesting intro there. Some interesting data on one of Randall Carlsons Kosmographia podcasts. Really puts things in perspective and may help some from reacting emotionally and possibly doing harm but well intentioned. ❤ ps I’m all for clean oceans, healthy coral, and lovely forests 🌳 haha

@ebbahugo8231 2 года назад

Good!

@TheSPQRHistorian 2 года назад

Thanks!

@SpartanG062 Год назад

"You knew Marcus Aurelius?" "I did not say I knew him I said that I watched an SPQR Historian video on him once!"

@holysaintknight343 2 года назад

BEST EMPEROR EVER

@aarondemiri486 2 года назад

very likely my favourite roman emperor

@laxg64 7 месяцев назад

Found this channel after my wife asked how often I think about Rome and now I can't stop thinking about Rome 😂

@juancervantes4085 Год назад

Can anyone answer this question? Why is this era not called the six good emperors as Lucius Verus shared the throne with Marcus Aurelius?

@stevenleslie8557 2 года назад

Wow, the fruit really fell far from this tree. Commodus was one bad apple.

@hashimbokhamseen7877 2 года назад

finally

@Anakunus 4 месяца назад

You know, I have been wondering about that often mentioned concept of "campaining season"... What is it, exactly? Is there some rule that prevents an army to wage war during wintertime? Hardly, for then the Winter War between 1939 and 1940 would have never happened. So I really wonder why Romans had to fight all their wars during some arbitrary "campaining season".

@tzadkiel4879 2 года назад

Could you please point exactly were Cassius Dio writes that Marcus Aurelius was killed intentionally by his doctors?

@TheSPQRHistorian 2 года назад

Epitome of Book LXXII: ....the whole passage goes as follow: Now if Marcus had lived longer, he would have subdued that entire region; but as it was, he passed away on the seventeenth of March, not as a result of the disease from which he still suffered, but by the act of his physicians, as I have been plainly told, who wished to do Commodus a favour.

@TheSPQRHistorian 2 года назад

Dio's Roman History IX, Loeb Classical Library - Epitome of Book LXXII Page 61

@aegonii8471 2 года назад

@@TheSPQRHistorian Shit

@SocietyofUnconqueredLivers Год назад

Ave Divus Marcus Aurelius!

@kerosam763 2 года назад

What there is a next in the series? I thought (like to pretend) everything stopped here and everyone lived happily ever after

@radonrodan8332 2 года назад

I wish...it did happen.and it all goes downhill from here.

@bobbybee2975 7 месяцев назад

Lol, when I was a kid doom and gloom was predicted to occur more than 20 years ago...the ad verbiage may be a little hyperbolic to say the least...

@chrisd9961 Год назад

I'm going to make a monthly contribution to my Hemi fund

@marcelfernandezromero8905 11 месяцев назад

10:53 this is where the timeline got screwed.

@ciprianincze8594 Год назад

👏👍

@ark6768 2 года назад

@sleepy0 2 года назад

would go absolutely apeshit over a video on cicero

@oobrocks 2 года назад

I can't remember even half of all these honors 😆

@RJ-cs9gz Год назад

Matt Berry masquerades as a narrator 😏

@Matt14060 2 года назад

commenting for algorithm

@alexanderkordas682 Год назад

At least 5 million died from the Antonine Plague, that is close to 10% of the Empire's population back then, not 2 million.

@tonyarceneaux286 2 года назад

Was he involved with Ceasur?

@EricVornoff 2 года назад

10:00 21:32 sh 31:55

@thelordjesuschrist666 2 года назад

⌚ The Master Theologian

@stefanvella9807 Год назад

One great history channel about the Roman General's, Statesmen and Emperors , I subbed immediatly. Thanks for sharing ✋✌🦅⚡🤴👸🤺🏇🦁🐎🦬🗡🏹⚔🛡🔱🚩🏰🏛⛪☧ 👑📯🥁⚔✝

@ParkerMcgraw 2 года назад

So few views. Criminal.

@christopher-johnbompas9729 2 года назад

Why I am seeing fucking V-shred in the ads? Come on RU-vid!

@nancyscogin7549 2 года назад

19:34

@kamikazekhan2832 2 года назад

How do we know this is what they looked like did they make these faces back then???

@lolikususs Год назад

There are tonns of coins depitcing them same as in busts. I have both Marcus and Verus

@aurelnegrea7617 2 года назад

He is my direct relative. Yes sir. Hmm.

@alexanderkordas682 Год назад

BS😂. Commodus had no children and his sister's kids died very young, leaving no descendants. Next pls.

@Mr30Dennis Год назад

Love the documentary, but I'll lower my carbon footprint when the corporations causing most of the problems lower theirs.

@kkdesignservices183 11 месяцев назад

It’s difficult for us to fathom just how savage were the Romans. And their Emperors embodied, quite literally, their savagery.

@majorbob7211 10 месяцев назад

Is this what the story of Marcus Aurelius inspire to you?

@user-lh1wr9sr8m 10 месяцев назад

I love Antoninus Pius' hair as much as the next guy, and I do think it is a forward feature of his, perhaps enough to be called 'apparent', but still I think the 4th chapter should be 'The Heir Apparent' rather than 'The Hair Apparent'. Great videos, though. This is one of the more comprehensive ways to understand the Roman empire coming into the late principate/crisis of the third century that I have seen on youtube. Excellent work!

@ahuramazda980 5 месяцев назад

Nice try. An updated version is in order to amend the slew of errors and typos.

@ahmedgr1513 Год назад

سبتيموس 🇱🇾😎🇱🇾سيفيروس

@stephenlukesh6739 2 года назад

Why the angelic music? Became very annoying to me. Finally had to shut the video off.

@i_smoke_ghosts 10 месяцев назад

im gonna leave this here .

@kevinkimmel7685 5 месяцев назад

Oh brother, carbon footprint?? Really???

@canonjean-mignon4985 2 года назад

This is probably a good channel. I appreciate it and my best wishes for whoever is making these, but if Marcus Aurelius is the author of stoic books, my name is Santa y as Clause.

@TheSPQRHistorian 2 года назад

Why do you mistrust that he wrotes books on stoicism? It's quite a well known fact...

@festerbester7801 2 года назад

Well you better start to change your name then mr. Santa y as Clause

@canonjean-mignon4985 2 года назад

@@festerbester7801 Roman aristocrats published and controlled literature. They also invented alter egos to create an illusion about the roman dream and to pacify intellectual opposition. There was no freedom of speech and the punishment for criticising royalty was death. For example, Cicero was executed for writing against Antony: they displayed his head along with his hand hanging above the rostra in front of the forum for weeks. It is a romantic thought that Aurelius was an altruistic emperor, I admit, but to believe that this ancient empire was by any means fair and civilised would be a naive conviction. They needed a philosopher king and created it. Just like they abandoned the tanakh and invented christianity. You can read Robert Syme's books and commentaries regarding his studies on the genealogies within the roman dynasties and connect the dots using Your brain.

@samwell2386 Год назад

These comments getting butthurt over the climate change ad are hilariously pathetic

@landonburke2772 2 года назад

He could have been a liar, how would you know?

@TheSPQRHistorian 2 года назад

Who do you mean?

@Andrew-With-An-A 2 года назад

Marcus Aurelius said "the object of life was not to be on the side of the majority...." The irony of starting with a campaign for supporting climate change programs 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@TheSPQRHistorian 2 года назад

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane

@grantshearer5615 Год назад

Wow. For the first time I ever, I naturally read SPQR as "Rome" Also, literally every planet is experiencing climate change. It's not cause by human emissions.

@aaronTGP_3756 Год назад

In short: You, a normie, stand against the entire meteorlogical/climatological scientific community.

@grantshearer5615 Год назад

@@aaronTGP_3756 in other words, when the same people are talking out of both sides of their mouths, loudly in public and quietly amongst themselves. And when what they say amongst themselves matches what can been seen with my own eyes, I'm going to believe the experts and my own eyes over the expert lies to the idiot masses.

@adamhill3691 2 года назад

How is it that not 1, and I mean not a single one of the global warming predictions have come to pass, and yet we have to listen to about how it's much worse than we thought?

@trick4247 Год назад

@TheFairway8 Год назад

What’s this climate crisis nonsense ad at the beginning. Planting trees has always been a good thing but this offsetting carbon bollocks is a nonsense basically you can pollute as much as you like as long as your company is rich enough to pay the carbon tax. Having said all that it’s an interesting video about dear old Marcus

@grandoldpartisan8170 Год назад

The climate has always changed. #science

@SouthernPaw119 Год назад

I was really excited to listen to this and was highly disappointed with the first few seconds. Marcus was undoubtedly a phenomenal emperor with exceptional moral values, incredible natural writing abilities, and a strong sense for the nature of man. Why do we have to have a guy speaking so ridiculously for over 50 minutes on a video that is undoubtedly full of great educational material about a great man…. that no one can take seriously.

@sasamitrovic9474 Год назад

Can you answer one question. After the conquest of Egypt, the Romans after a certain period adopted the religion of those they conquered!!! Why? Historical science says that the first monotheistic religion originated in Egypt and that its creator was a certain Amenophis. From this religion arose Christianity. The only common-sense answer is that the civilization from which they take religion and knowledge is far more advanced than anything they knew or understood about nature and knowledge about the laws that rule the same as life in general. At the great council in Nicaea, Christian scholars establish the date when God himself created the world. It is 1.09.5508. denying any existence of anything just two thousand years ago!!!!! So much for the philosophy created by stealing from the military conquered and presenting everything known as one's own invention. That Romans philosophy, social order and laws become the foundation of modern European countries and this is where we are today. The Egyptians evaporated, where and why no one knows to say. The question is whether the Roman conquest was progress for civilization or its degradation for a few thousand years back?

@speedymccreedy8785 2 года назад

I loved the joke sponsor this week, something about the global warming “crisis”. Great timing, much of the home state of the World Climate Clown John Kerry, Massachusetts, was under 2 feet of snow. Just too funny. I wonder if I could set up a scheme selling snow credits.