Popular violence and rhetorics at Republican Rome: shared arguments and persuasion

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María Eugenia Steinberg

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The present paper proposes the analysis of the episode of the secession to the Monte Sacro or the Aventino from a rhetorical-stylistic perspective of the texts and contexts that transmitted it (Cic. Brutus 54; Liv. Ab Vrbe Condita II.32; Dion. Hal., Hist. 6. 39.2; Plut., Cor. 5.1-4; 6.1-4 y 7-1-2). Our aim is to identify and differentiate the Latin and Greek versions, and to sustain the hypothesis that the officium oratoris (Cic. Or. 69) is linked to a genus dicendi vehemens when it comes to flectere minds; but the rhetorical function of sedare discordias goes beyond the vehemence and demarcates the absolute control of the audience through suaviloquentia

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Steinberg, M. E. . (2022). Popular violence and rhetorics at Republican Rome: shared arguments and persuasion. Rétor, 9(1), 68–85. Retrieved from http://www.aaretorica.org/revista/index.php/retor/article/view/45
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