A carbon reduction project would be to address the Communists Chinese, India and others that pollute. That is reality. Enough. Address the problem or don't. I'm in doubt your sincerity. Allow nuclear engineering for responsible countries. Less carbon, but you already knew that if you're being genuine.
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.
@@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."
@@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.
@@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
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 UA-cam besides the already widely covered areas of Roman History.
...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.
@@michaelheath5615 It wasn't even a decision, the throne always passed from father to son whenever there was a son.The Adoptive Emperors only adopted because none had sons.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
This is an excellent video. Production levels match anything the top UA-cam 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.
"Those who don't want power must lead." - I forgot who said it but it says it all. Look at the politicians who want to rule for many years, they are not fit to be given power. For just like Marcus Aurelius, a leader must not be greedy with power but can share it gladly with others. We have troubled times when those in authority don't think like a philosopher king. I now understood this better than when my professor explained it in class before. I love people who think deeply because when they conquer themselves, they can conquer anything.
He had no choice, the throne always passed from Emperor to son whenever there was a son, the Adoptive Emperors were only a thing because none had sons.
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.
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.
Lucius Verus is usually seen as a "frat boy" who partied while Marcus Aurelius burned midnight oil ruling the Empire for the Roman people and Senate. 12:35 🐺🐺 🦁☀️🐝⚡🦅⚡🐝☀️🦁
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.
@@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.
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.
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
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".
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!
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.
@@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.
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 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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 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.
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
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Not a fugging chance you charlaton.
A carbon reduction project would be to address the Communists Chinese, India and others that pollute. That is reality.
Enough. Address the problem or don't.
I'm in doubt your sincerity.
Allow nuclear engineering for responsible countries. Less carbon, but you already knew that if you're being genuine.
"Sequester carbon" loool
I am trying to raise my carbon foot print. Global warming wait cooling no wait climate change is not real.
climate change is a lie
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.
Not tryna be negative or anything but we don’t know what Lucius Verus would’ve become
Was Lucius ever doing anything ? Wasn’t he a huge slob, or something like that ?
@@Yrathus Lucius Verus was famois for his love of Doritos, and had an entire legion of slaves to constantly supply his gamer cave
@@JamesJJSMilton yes 🙌 and left all the work to Marcus Aurelius lmao
@@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."
*The wait is over; Plato's perfect Philosopher-King is here. :')*
Yeah It only happens once in a million years, all the stars have to align
Not perfect because his son Commodus was a horrible emperor. Marcus should have groomed a better successor and given more thought to the succession
@@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.
@@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
😏🌞❤️ based and philosopher leader pilled
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 UA-cam besides the already widely covered areas of Roman History.
Thank you, really appreciate that! I'll keep releasing content because I really love Roman History and I like doing the videos :)
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.
das ist gut ja !
Damb nice prediction lil guy. Next time just shhhh
@@danc8458 lol your dad definitely touched you inappropriately
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
...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.
@@michaelheath5615 It wasn't even a decision, the throne always passed from father to son whenever there was a son.The Adoptive Emperors only adopted because none had sons.
@@tomasrocha6139 More to the point, choosing someone else than Commodus meant civil war. 🐺🐺
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Marcus Aurelius would've been the perfect emperor if he didn't messed up his succession.
Could you kill your own child?
Or debase the currency.
In his defense he tried to give the purple to Maximus... 😂
Choosing someone else as successor would have meant civil war.
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.
Thanks Ben! Will do!
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.
Best version of Meditation is the one translated by Hays
@@WeedsAvabelwhat makes it the best?
Wow! That's a steal! I bought a modern one and it's one of the best decisions to get this book.
Forgive my language, but a find like that is what I call a nerdgasm. 🤓😄
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?
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.
See Roger II of Sicily...
And yet, so predictable, and true to form for every dynasty ever.
Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times.
@@evanobrien7316 that is if the individual INTERNALIZES this..
Your thoughts dyes your soul! Marcus Aurelius Emperor Stoic Philosopher of Rome
"Just because you do not take an interest in politics, doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."!!
This is an excellent video and the channel is excellent too. Well done!
Thank you very much!
@@TheSPQRHistorian I just became your latest subscriber.
Your best video so far by a MILE!!! Wow!!! Worthy of the Philosopher King for sure.
Thank you Mark! Glad you liked it
I always find it interesting how many future emperors served alongside each other as generals
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.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
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.
Finally my hero and life inspiration! Best Roman Caesar!
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
Once again, a fantastic video. A really good biography of Marcus Aurelius.
Thank you Daniel!
What a phenomenal video! And it gets better every time.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it
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.
Really interesting and remarkably well done. Thank You
Thank you Joseph! Glad you enjoyed it
Got excited when I saw this
This is an excellent video. Production levels match anything the top UA-cam 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.
Thank you, glad you enjoy it!
"Those who don't want power must lead." - I forgot who said it but it says it all.
Look at the politicians who want to rule for many years, they are not fit to be given power. For just like Marcus Aurelius, a leader must not be greedy with power but can share it gladly with others.
We have troubled times when those in authority don't think like a philosopher king. I now understood this better than when my professor explained it in class before. I love people who think deeply because when they conquer themselves, they can conquer anything.
No matter how great Marcus Aurelius was, giving power to Commodus will always overshadow anything he did.
He had no choice, the throne always passed from Emperor to son whenever there was a son, the Adoptive Emperors were only a thing because none had sons.
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.
excellent work, the quality of the video and the research shines
Thanks a lot 😊
@@TheSPQRHistorian your welcome, as someone who has started a youtube channel of his own, your quality is the stuff i aspire too
One of my favorite quotes is "Your life is what your thoughts make"
Deep and excellent dive into the life of my favorite Emperor. Great job 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
Over 50 minutes?! Be right back, imma make a cuppa tea. xD
Welcome back, can’t wait to get to Gallienus
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.
Your videos are amazing!
Great video my dude!!
Thank you my guy
This is an exemplary piece of work and is greatly appreciated. I have subscribed and wish you much success in your future endeavours. Maf
"There would be no commodus"
One of the best phrases in English. If only it were true...
"You knew Marcus Aurelius?"
"I did not say I knew him I said that I watched an SPQR Historian video on him once!"
Grabs popcorn
Fully excellent work. Thank you very much.
Many thanks!
Amazing video!!!!
Glad you liked it!!
The true Philosopher King!
Could you please point exactly were Cassius Dio writes that Marcus Aurelius was killed intentionally by his doctors?
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.
Dio's Roman History IX, Loeb Classical Library - Epitome of Book LXXII Page 61
@@TheSPQRHistorian Shit
I love you Wayne. Thanks for being the best guy I know!
Can anyone answer this question?
Why is this era not called the six good emperors as Lucius Verus shared the throne with Marcus Aurelius?
Lucius Verus is usually seen as a "frat boy" who partied while Marcus Aurelius burned midnight oil ruling the Empire for the Roman people and Senate. 12:35 🐺🐺
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Superb 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
Loooove this thank you 🙏🏻❤️🤎
Glad you liked it!
Found this channel after my wife asked how often I think about Rome and now I can't stop thinking about Rome 😂
Brilliant video. Thank you :)
Evidently didn't raise his son, Commodus right by the looks of it 📚
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.
@@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.
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.
@@aaronTGP_3756Same for Henry II of England
@@majorbob7211 True. Richard and John were warmongering fools.
BEST EMPEROR EVER
36:20 for those who claimed Marcus Aurelius never expanded the empire
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
so good
very likely my favourite roman emperor
Nice video
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".
It was easier to to campaign during rest of the year, feeding your army during winter in foreign territory could be a challenge for example.
@@gelraldoldo5152 I doesn't seem to be a challenge at all for the Russian army.
Good!
Thanks!
10:53 this is where the timeline got screwed.
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...
Ave Divus Marcus Aurelius!
Was he involved with Ceasur?
What there is a next in the series? I thought (like to pretend) everything stopped here and everyone lived happily ever after
I wish...it did happen.and it all goes downhill from here.
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31:55
Wow, the fruit really fell far from this tree. Commodus was one bad apple.
I'm going to make a monthly contribution to my Hemi fund
Love the documentary, but I'll lower my carbon footprint when the corporations causing most of the problems lower theirs.
19:34
finally
These comments getting butthurt over the climate change ad are hilariously pathetic
At least 5 million died from the Antonine Plague, that is close to 10% of the Empire's population back then, not 2 million.
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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!
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Why the angelic music? Became very annoying to me. Finally had to shut the video off.
Nice try. An updated version is in order to amend the slew of errors and typos.
If you pay enough money they can change the weather!
Why I am seeing fucking V-shred in the ads? Come on UA-cam!
Matt Berry masquerades as a narrator 😏
commenting for algorithm
I can't remember even half of all these honors 😆
Oh brother, carbon footprint?? Really???
would go absolutely apeshit over a video on cicero
How do we know this is what they looked like did they make these faces back then???
There are tonns of coins depitcing them same as in busts. I have both Marcus and Verus
So few views. Criminal.
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It’s difficult for us to fathom just how savage were the Romans. And their Emperors embodied, quite literally, their savagery.
Is this what the story of Marcus Aurelius inspire to you?
The climate has always changed. #science
Why is China making so many call factories
Love videos. Not so much the sponsor...
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.
Why do you mistrust that he wrotes books on stoicism? It's quite a well known fact...
Well you better start to change your name then mr. Santa y as Clause
@@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.
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 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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
"Climate change is the defining crisis of our time". Good Lord. Just stop. 🤦♂
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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.
In short: You, a normie, stand against the entire meteorlogical/climatological scientific community.
@@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.
He is my direct relative. Yes sir. Hmm.
BS😂.
Commodus had no children and his sister's kids died very young, leaving no descendants.
Next pls.
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
One great history channel about the Roman General's, Statesmen and Emperors , I subbed immediatly. Thanks for sharing
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He could have been a liar, how would you know?
Who do you mean?