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    Sempronius Gracchus. Both, known together as the Gracchi brothers, were the sons of the Gracchus who was consul in 177 and 163 BC. Gaius Gracchus was born...
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    lived during the beginning of the late Roman Republic: Tiberius Gracchus and Gaius Gracchus. They served in the plebeian tribunates of 133 BC and 122–121 BC...
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    Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (c. 163 – 133 BC) was a Roman politician best known for his agrarian reform law entailing the transfer of land from the Roman...
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    Aemilianus. Cornelia married Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, grandson of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, when he was already in middle age. The union proved...
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  • Gracchi brothers: Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus. Gracchus first appears as plebeian aedile in 246 BC. He and his colleague, Gaius Fundanius Fundulus, built a...
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  • narrowly acquitted with Gracchus' help. Supposedly, during his censorship, citizens extinguished their lights when Gracchus passed at night from fear...
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    Cornelia married Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and became mother to the Gracchi brothers, Tiberius Gracchus and Gaius Gracchus. None of his sons had legitimate...
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  • killed. Gracchus died violently shortly after in a grove nearby. Roman citizens cheered on the flight of Gracchus but would not assist him. Gracchus' choice...
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  • Gaius Papirius Carbo (c. 163 – 119 BC) was a Roman orator and politician. Carbo was associated with the populist politician Gaius Gracchus in carrying...
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    Cato the Censor. Initially a friend of the Gracchi brothers, Gaius betrayed Gaius Gracchus in the late 120s BC. He became consul in 114, but was crushed...
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    a land reformer. Gaius Gracchus (154–121). Gaius was the younger brother of Tiberius Gracchus, and the second son of Cornelia. Gaius set himself the project...
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    era began with the Tribunate of Gaius Gracchus, and ended when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon river. Tiberius Gracchus was elected plebeian tribune in...
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    Tiberius Gracchus, 7.4 Plutarch, Parallel Lives, The life of Tiberius Gracchus, 20.1 Plutarch, Parallel Lives, The life of Tiberius Gracchus, 21.4–25...
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    Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and his wife Cornelia. Her younger brothers were the famed Roman politicians Tiberius Gracchus and Gaius Gracchus. Her maternal...
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    power, which began following the reforms of the tribunes Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus. After the transition of the Republic into the Principate, the Senate...
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    against Gaius Sempronius Gracchus (Tiberius' younger brother) and Marcus Fulvius Flaccus. It was issued in response to a violent protest held by Gracchus and...
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  • history to that point. When Gaius Gracchus and M. Fulvius Flaccus were defeated for re-election by Opimius and Fabius, Gracchus organized a mass protest...
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  • histories Gaius Duilius Gaius Fabricius Luscinus Gaius Flaminius Gaius Flavius Fimbria Gaius Gracchus Gaius Julius Alpinus Classicianus Gaius Julius Antiochus...
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    "for having acted in the public interests" by killing Tiberius Gracchus and Gaius Gracchus. This usage also does not contrast to optimates but instead suggests...
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    tribunate of Tiberius Gracchus in 133 BC led to a breakup of the long-standing norms of the republican constitution. Gracchus was successful in passing...
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  • Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (died 212 BC) was a Roman republican consul in the Second Punic War. He was son of the Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus who was consul...
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    Parallel Lives (category Cultural depictions of Gaius Marius)
    Caesar, Phocion, Cato the Younger, Agis, Cleomenes, Tiberius Gracchus and Gaius Gracchus, Demosthenes, Cicero, Demetrius, Mark Antony, Dion, Marcus Brutus...
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    Initially, the juries were made up of senators; after the reforms of Gaius Sempronius Gracchus in 122 BC they were made up of equestrians; after the Sullan reforms...
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  • attempted to warn Tiberius Gracchus of the plots against his life on the day that he was killed; in 121 BC, having supported Gaius Gracchus in his reform program...
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    noted orator Marcus Antonius who had been murdered during the purges of Gaius Marius in the winter of 87–86 BC. His mother was Julia, a third cousin of...
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    of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus in 174 BC. Publius Sempronius Gracchus, tribune of the plebs in 189 BC, with his colleague, Gaius Sempronius Rutilus, charged...
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    consul in 121 BC, had presided over events which led to the death of Gaius Gracchus). Jugurtha was assigned the western half; later Roman propaganda claimed...
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  • Rabirio Postumo, Philippicae. Plutarch, The Life of Gaius Gracchus, The Life of Tiberius Gracchus, The Life of Marius, The Life of Pompey, The Life of...
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    Pompilius, Coriolanus, Theseus, Aemilius Paullus, Tiberius Gracchus, Gaius Gracchus, Gaius Marius, Sulla, Sertorius, Lucullus, Pompey, Julius Caesar,...
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  • Gaius Scribonius Curio (c. 84 BC – 49 BC) was the son of Gaius Scribonius Curio, consul in 76 BC and censor in 61 BC. His political allegiances changed...
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