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Gaius Sempronius Gracchus addressing the Plebeian Council. The gens Sempronia was one of the most ancient and noble houses of ancient Rome.Although the oldest branch of this gens was patrician, with Aulus Sempronius Atratinus obtaining the consulship in 497 BC, the thirteenth year of the Republic, but from the time of the Samnite Wars onward, most if not all of the Sempronii appearing in ...
Sempronia (170 BC – after 101 BC) was a Roman noblewoman living in the Middle and Late Roman Republic, who was most famous as the sister of the ill-fated Tiberius Gracchus (died 133 BC) and Gaius Gracchus (died 121 BC), and the wife of a Roman general Scipio Aemilianus.
The gens (plural gentes) was a Roman family, of Italic or Etruscan origins, consisting of all those individuals who shared the same nomen and claimed descent from a common ancestor. It was an important social and legal structure in early Roman history. [1] [2] The distinguishing characteristic of a gens was the nomen gentilicium, or gentile name.
This is the family tree of the Cornelii Scipiones — a prominent family of the Roman Republic — who were allied with the Sempronii Gracchi, Aemilii Paulli, and Caecilii Metelli, whose members are also shown. Only magistracies attested with certainty in Broughton's Magistrates of the Roman Republic have been mentioned. The dotted lines show ...
Sempronius belonged to the patrician Sempronia gens and the branch known as the Sempronii Atratini, one of the republic's oldest consular families, having reached the consulship in 497 BC. He is the first known Gaius among the Sempronia, but the praenomen would become increasingly common within the gens during the 3rd and 2nd century BC.
Sempronia is mentioned, but does not appear, in the novel The October Horse and appears in Caesar's Women, by Colleen McCullough. [23] In the novel Respublica: A Novel of Cicero's Roman Republic Sempronia is portrayed as a vile woman who murders her husband and mentally and sexually abuses her son Decimus. [ 24 ]
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Tiberius was of plebeian status and was a member of the well-connected gens Sempronia, a family of ancient Rome. [6] Tiberius may be the same person as the homonymous augur who served from 204 to 174 BC; [7] his grandfather, or possibly father, was the man of the same name who was consul in 215 and 213 BC.
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