书名：On the Shortness of Life论生命之短暂-企鹅伟大的思想系列文学视野
作者：Seneca塞内卡
出版社名称：Penguin
出版时间：2004
语种：英语
ISBN：9780141018812
商品尺寸：11.1 x 0.8 x 18 cm
包装：平装
页数：112（以实物为准）

“伟大的思想系列丛书”是英国企鹅出版集团推出的一套jing选本学术名著，共80种，收录了一些对人类思想产生过重大影响的哲学著作、随笔和政论。作者包括柏拉图、尼采、奥威尔和阿伦特等，以中英双语的形式出版，既能够让读者领略原著的思想精髓，又能借以提高英语阅读水平。

“伟大的思想”选择从古希腊到二十世纪公认的西方哲学经典著作。每一部经典都是多角度、多侧面的，最能代表其主旨的部分，以中英对照的形式出版，尽量帮助读者把握西哲全貌、准确理解其精神内涵。纵观历史，有的书改变了世界。它们扭转了我们看待自身和他人的方式。它们引发争论，产生异见，挑起战争，催化革命。它们发人深省，激发愤懑，鼓动情绪，提供慰藉。它们丰富了我们的生活，也摧毁了我们的生活。现在，《伟大的思想》丛书带您领略伟大的思想家、先驱、激进分子和梦想家的著作，他们的思想撼动了旧有的文明，塑造了我们现在的样子。

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are. The Stoic writings of the philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into the art of living, the importance of reason and morality, and continue to provide profound guidance to many through their eloquence, lucidity and timeless wisdom.

Lucius AnnaeusSeneca, statesman, philosopher, advocate and man of letters, was born in Spain around 4BC. He rose to prominence at Rome, pursuing a double career in the courts and political life, until Claudius sent him into exile exile on the island of Corsica for eight years. Recalled in AD49, he was appointed tutor to the boy who was to become, in AD54, the emperor Nero. Seneca acted for eight years as Nero's unofficial chief minister until Nero too turned against him and he retired from public life to devote himself to philosophy and writing. In AD65, following the discovery of a plot against the emperor, he and many others were compelled by Nero to commit suicide. C.D.N. Costa has spent most of his working life at Birmingham University, where he is Professor of Classics and Chairman of the School of Antiquity. Among other works, he has written commentaries on the works of Seneca, Letters, Dialogues and the tragedy Medea.