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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 state and wealthy landowners to poorer citizens.
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (c. 220 BC [1] – 154 BC [2]) was a Roman politician and general of the 2nd century BC. He served two consulships, one in 177 [ 3 ] and one 163 BC, [ 4 ] and was awarded two triumphs . [ 5 ]
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus was born c. 163 BC. [31] His younger brother Gaius was born c. 154 BC. [32] They were the sons of the Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus who had been consul 177 [33] and 163 BC [34] as well as censor in 169 BC. [35] [36] He had triumphed twice in 178 and 175 BC. [37]
A lex Sempronia is a Roman law proposed by a member of the gens Sempronia. The most famous of these laws are those passed by the Gracchi brothers: especially the land reform law passed by Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus in 133 BC and the grain dole later passed by Tiberius' brother Gaius Sempronius Gracchus.
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, who was elected to the priesthood in 203 BC at a very young age, and who died in the plague of 174 BC. [citation needed] Tiberius Veturius Gracchus Sempronianus, who replaced his dead kinsman as augur, and whose name indicates that he was born a Sempronius and adopted into the patrician Veturii. [citation needed]
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus first makes a mark on history winning the golden crown from General Scipio Aemilianus by being first over the wall at the victorious Battle of Carthage. Back in Rome, now the "capital of the world", he finds the growing gap between rich and poor threatening the foundations of the republic.
Engraving facing the title page of an 18th-century edition of Plutarch's Lives. The Parallel Lives (Ancient Greek: Βίοι Παράλληλοι, Bíoi Parállēloi; Latin: Vītae Parallēlae) is a series of 48 biographies of famous men written in Greek by the Greco-Roman philosopher, historian, and Apollonian priest Plutarch, probably at the beginning of the second century.
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (consul 238 BC), father of Tiberius and Publius Gracchus. Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (consul 215 BC), son of the above. Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (d. 174 BC), son of the above, elected to the priesthood in 203 BC at a very young age. Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (consul 177 BC) (c. 217 BC –c. 150 BC), also ...