SÉNECA: ¡El filósofo ANTI-DINERO que prestó MILLONES y pudo desatar una masacre de 70.000 muertos!

Seneca was Rome's most famous philosopher. The man who wrote some of history's greatest books on why money can't make you happy. The author of the Moral Epistles, read for two thousand years by Montaigne, Erasmus, Kant, and much of the Western world. And also, according to the historian Dio Cassius, one of the possible instigators of the greatest massacre the Roman Empire suffered in a century. In 61 AD, seventy thousand Romans and Romanized people died in Britain during Boudicca's rebellion. Three cities were razed. Governor Suetonius Paulinus took weeks to return to quell it. And in Rome, while this news was arriving, Seneca continued writing philosophical letters about the vanity of wealth and the freedom of the soul. The same Seneca who had lent forty million sesterces to British nobles at an interest rate that the Romans themselves would call usury. The same Seneca whose agents arrived to collect those loans at the worst possible moment. Was Seneca a textbook hypocrite? Or was there something darker, more interesting, and more unsettling about him than mere hypocrisy? In this documentary, we trace his entire life: from Cordoba, where he was born in 4 BC into an intellectual and ambitious family, to that steam bath where he spent hours dying while still dictating to his secretaries. We will see how a child with asthma who described each attack as a rehearsal for death became the most influential philosopher in Rome. How he spent eight years in exile in Corsica preaching serenity while privately pleading for his return. How he tutored Nero for five years without understanding that the young emperor was never his student but his audience. How he ruled Rome in the shadows during the Quinquennium Neronis, the five best years of the Empire since Augustus, while amassing a fortune of three hundred million sesterces. And how, when the moment arrived that his own letters described as the most important of his life, the moment to face death with philosophical serenity, his blood barely flowed, the hemlock had no effect, and he had to end his life in a steam bath, dictating until his last breath. The man who wrote most honestly about freedom died locked in a gilded cage. The man who wrote most about death took longer to die than any other philosopher in history. The man who preached contempt for wealth was probably the richest man of his time. And his words are the only ones that have survived the cage. Subscribe to the channel so you don't miss the upcoming documentaries about the great figures in history who don't fit into any category. CHAPTERS: 00:00 — The Day Britain Burned — Seneca and the 70,000 Dead 02:02 — Cordoba, 4 BC — The son of Hispania's most ambitious rhetorician 08:21 — Nero's tutor — How Seneca ruled Rome from the shadows 18:19 — The golden cage — The speech that sealed Agrippina's fate 27:10 — The impossible death — Hemlock, open veins, and steam 32:25 — Epilogue — Why his words survived the cage #documentary #philosophy #greekphilosophy #history #seneca