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Tiberius Gracchus and the Beginning of the Roman Revolution

Badian, E.. "Tiberius Gracchus and the Beginning of the Roman Revolution". Band 1 Politische Geschichte, edited by Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 1972, pp. 668-731. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110818352-023

Badian, E. (1972). Tiberius Gracchus and the Beginning of the Roman Revolution. In H. Temporini & W. Haase (Ed.), Band 1 Politische Geschichte (pp. 668-731). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110818352-023

Badian, E. 1972. Tiberius Gracchus and the Beginning of the Roman Revolution. In: Temporini, H. and Haase, W. ed. Band 1 Politische Geschichte. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 668-731. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110818352-023

Badian, E.. "Tiberius Gracchus and the Beginning of the Roman Revolution" In Band 1 Politische Geschichte edited by Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase, 668-731. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 1972. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110818352-023

Badian E. Tiberius Gracchus and the Beginning of the Roman Revolution. In: Temporini

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(legendary, died 133 B.C.E.)

By Plutarch

Written 75 A.C.E.

Translated by John Dryden

Having completed the first two narratives, we now may proceed to take a view of misfortunes, not less remarkable, in the Roman couple, and with the lives of Agis and Cleomenes, compare these of Tiberius and Caius. They were the sons of Tiberius Gracchus, who though he had been once censor, twice consul, and twice had triumphed, yet was more renowned and esteemed for his virtue than his honours. Upon this account, after the death of Scipio who overthrew Hannibal, he was thought worthy to match with his daughter Cornelia, though there had been no friendship or familiarity between Scipio and him, but rather the contrary. There is a story told that he once found in his bed-chamber a couple of snakes, and that the soothsayers, being consulted concerning the prodigy, advised that he should neither kill them both nor let them both escape; adding, that if the

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Tiberius Gracchus

Roman politician and social reformer (163 – 133 BC)

For other Romans with the same name, see Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (disambiguation).

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 state and wealthy landowners to poorer citizens. He had also served in the Roman army, fighting in Africa during the Third Punic War and in Spain during the Numantine War.

His political future was imperilled during his quaestorship when he was forced to negotiate a humiliating treaty with the Numantines after they had surrounded the army he was part of in Spain. Seeking to rebuild that future and reacting to a supposed decline in the Roman population which he blamed on rich families buying up Italian land, he carried a land reform bill against strong opposition by another tribune during his term as tribune of the plebs in 133 BC. To pass and protect his reforms, Tiberius unprecedentedly had the tribune who opposed his programme deposed from office,