On the Education of Children: Pedagogical Observations of Plutarch. His views on education and upbringing issues. How he believes the youth should listen to poetry: An approach to poetry with a criterion based on the pedagogical significance of the youth's contact with the works of poets.

On Listening: The method of proper listening to philosophical lectures. Didactic and pedagogical examples.

The biographer and philosopher Plutarch (circa 50-120 AD) was born in Chaeronea, Boeotia. Through his travels, he broadened his intellectual horizons and came into contact with prominent figures of his time, mainly distinguished Romans. He lived most of his life in his homeland and held public priestly offices.

His surviving works are distinguished into historical-biographical parts and the so-called 'Ethical' writings. In the 'Parallel Lives', prominent Greeks and Romans are compared, and the worlds each represents are indirectly contrasted. In the 'Ethical' writings, issues of ethics, philosophy, science, politics, literary criticism, as well as topics from the realm of religion, nature, history, etc., are developed, sometimes in the form of dialogues and sometimes as treatises or dissertations.

Erudite and with a keen spirit, the author expressed traditional Greek values with simplicity and an optimistic outlook. His work pleases and teaches, while being an important source of literature from classical and Hellenistic times.

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