Abstract

LOPEZ CRUZ, Paula. Menenius Agrippa's Fable (Liv., II, 32-33). Nova tellus [online]. 2011, vol.29, n.2, pp.117-128. ISSN 0185-3058.

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 containing the 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 literary form 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.

Keywords : Menenius Agrippa; Livy; fable; rhetoric.

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