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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.
During the French Revolution, the revolutionary François-Noël Babeuf named himself "Gracchus" after the Gracchi brothers, in an attempt to connect his desire for large scale land redistribution with the Gracchan programme for agrarian reform. Babeuf's plans, however, differed substantially from the Gracchan programme in ways that exemplify ...
Tiberius Gracchus – the tribune who initiated the reforms in 133 BC, but was murdered by the Senate. Gaius Gracchus – his brother, who tried to resume Tiberius' reforms in 123 BC, but was also murdered in 121. The agrarian reform law required the transfer of land from the wealthy landowners to Rome's poorer citizens.
In 133 BC, Tiberius Gracchus, the tribune of the plebs, passed a series of laws attempting to reform the agrarian land laws; the laws limited the amount of public land one person could control, reclaimed public lands held in excess of this, and attempted to redistribute the land, for a small rent, to farmers now living in the cities.
The most famous lex agraria was that of the plebeian tribune Tiberius Gracchus, passed in 133 BC, which allotted public lands across Italy to rural plebs. [3] Such laws were not without precedent, such as the lex Flaminia of 232 BC which authorised viritane distributions of lands in Cisalpine Gaul and Picenum .
The lex agraria of 111 BC is an epigraphically-attested Roman law on the distribution and holding of public land (ager publicus).It dealt with the confirmation of private title to formerly public lands distributed by the Gracchan land commission in Italy, public lands given in exchange for other lands given up by allies, the imposition of a rent or property tax (vectigal) on such lands, and ...
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.
Agrarian reform can refer either, narrowly, to government-initiated or government-backed redistribution of agricultural land ... Tiberius Gracchus; References