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Seneca – On the Shortness of LifeContents:- On the Shortness of Life- Consolation to Helvia- On Tranquility of MindTaken from the Penguin Classics edition of Dialogues and Letters, translated and edited by C. D. N. Costa (1997).This selection was first published by Penguin Books in 2004 in the UK and in 2005 in the USA. The present scan is from the 2005 USA edition.Luca Giordano, The death of Seneca (1684)Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca; ca. 4 BC – 65 AD) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero. While he was later forced to commit suicide for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate Nero, the last of the Julio-Claudian emperors, he may have been innocent.Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger