How to Listen
An Ancient Guide to Learning from Others
$40.41
- Hardcover
152 pages
- Release Date
2 June 2026
Summary
Listening is a skill, even an art, and it’s essential to learning and to life. Indeed, as Plutarch writes in How to Listen, “listening well is the foundation for living well”. In this volume, Jeffrey Beneker presents a vivid and accessible new translation of Plutarch’s classic essay about how to become a skilled listener, complete with an inviting introduction and the original Greek on facing pages.
Plutarch is most famous as the author of Parallel Lives, a series of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691265582 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0691265585 |
| Author: | Plutarch, Jeffrey Beneker |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 152 |
| Release Date: | 2 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 196g |
| Dimensions: | 171mm x 114mm |
| Series: | Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers |
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About The Author
Plutarch
Plutarch (c. AD 40-120)
A native of Greece and a citizen of Rome, Plutarch was a philosopher, writer, lecturer, and an expert on teaching and learning. He wrote many essays on ethics, history, science, and culture, in addition to Parallel Lives, his famous biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen.
Jeffrey Beneker
Jeffrey Beneker is professor of classics at the University of Wisconsin Madison. He is the editor and translator of Plutarch’s How to Be a Leader and the author of The Passionate Statesman: Eros and Politics in Plutarch’s Lives.
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