Menenius Agrippaʼs Fable (Liv., II, 32-33)
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Apr 2, 2013
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Menenius Agrippa Livy fable rhetoric
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In 494 a. C. in the course of the first seccesion of the plebs, Menenius Agrippa delivered a speech to the plebeians at the camp at Monte Sacro containingthe fable The Belly and the Limbs to persuade them to return to Rome. Livy recounts this event in his work Ab urbe condita (II, 32, 8-12), but he only reports the fable without giving further details of the speech. This study is aimed at analyzing the text on the basis of the rhetorical precepts. On the one hand, it tries to find out if the literaryform of the historical episode fits the form of an exemplum, and, on the other, it looks for the author’s purpose behind the choice of recounting solely the fable.
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López Cruz, P. “Menenius Agrippaʼs Fable (Liv., II, 32-33)”. Nova Tellus, vol. 29, no. 2, Apr. 2013, doi:10.19130/iifl.nt.2011.29.2.389.
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