Saggio di commento al De audiendis poetis di Plutarco

The text is divided in two sections. The first includes an introduction to the essay concerning an hypothesis of its datation; an analysis of the objectives of the essay, a review of studies regarding its structure, with reference to the introducing formulas of each paragraph in which it has been subdivided by modern researcher; an in-depth analysis on esthetical ideas and on philosophical sources present within the essay and on the reading methods proposed by Plutarco; a brief review on citations use; an accurate analysis on the lexicon utilized by the Cheronese with a focus on the value of the term ηὸ μςθῶδερ. De Audiendis poetis is a work of pedagogic nature and falls within the treaties of philosophicalpopular characteristics and ethical-moral matrix. As the plutarchean essays of pedagogic characteristics also within the De Audiendis poetis is present a pragmatic approach: in the work, not classifiable as esthetical nor literary critic treaty, rather of moral philosophy, to poetry it is attributed a pedagogic task, by a series of suggestions of specious character that can be of health in the approach to poetic readings, and poetry becomes an educational instrument preparatory to the learning of philosophical truth, if read correctly, but, due to the presence within its intimate of both useful and dangerous elements, it will be necessary to worry that the soul of young readers would not be damaged. .. [edited by Author]