How to Listen: An Ancient Guide to Learning from Others - Hardcover
by Plutarch
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jeffrey Beneker (Editor), Jeffrey Beneker (Translator), PlutarchSeries:Ancient Wisdom for Modern ReadersPublish date:2/24/2026Pages:152
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691265582ISBN-10:691265585UPC:9780691265582Book Category:Philosophy, Self-HelpBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, Social, Personal GrowthBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:6.80 x 4.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCYEDZPP4P
How to Listen: An Ancient Guide to Learning from Others
A lively new translation of Plutarch's charming and timeless essay on how to be a good listener--and why listening is essential to learning and living well
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...Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691265582ISBN-10:691265585UPC:9780691265582Book Category:Philosophy, Self-HelpBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, Social, Personal GrowthBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:6.80 x 4.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCYEDZPP4P
Plutarch (c. AD 40-120), a native of Greece and a citizen of Rome, 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 is professor of classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the editor and...
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Jeffrey Beneker (Editor), Jeffrey Beneker (Translator), Plutarch
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