The intellectual biography of the thinker whose powerful influence reaches our days and the historical chronicle of the best centuries of Rome.

A moral, historical and political portrait, "Seneca, the wisdom of the Empire" analyses for the first time this essential character from an adequate and complete context. Thus, the relevance of his family origins is collected in great detail and in a novel way, as well as that of the Cordoba of his time. Paying attention to Roman sources, to the work of Seneca himself, to modern and classical studies, but from a deep knowledge of the character, of philosophy and of the History of Rome itself, Alberto Monterroso shows us with extraordinary ease both his thought and his moral, tragic, poetic work, etc., which is interspersed with the description of the events that occurred on a personal level. The result is an essential work, a must-read for those who want to know why and how a man born in one of the most remote cities of the Empire, far-off Cordoba, would become the most eminent politician and intellectual in Rome. How was it possible for this man to rise to the top of the Empire and rule it wisely in the name of the emperor? How is it possible that his intellectual legacy has had major implications in the world of politics, religion, culture and society until the 21st century? What was so special and ineffable about Lucius Annaeus Seneca?