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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 was the oldest surviving child and only surviving daughter of Roman consul and censor Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and his wife Cornelia. Her younger brothers were the famed Roman politicians Tiberius Gracchus and Gaius Gracchus.
Syphax, however, refused to ratify any treaty except with Scipio, so Scipio sailed with two quinqueremes to meet with Syphax, taking a considerable risk in doing so. In fact he arrived at the Numidian harbor at exactly the same time as Hasdrubal Gisco (who had fled from Spain) anchored there on his way back to Carthage.
Sempronius Gracchus was a Roman nobleman who engaged in a long-term affair with Julia the Elder, the daughter of Augustus, when she was wife of Marcus Agrippa and, after Agrippa's death, the future emperor Tiberius. It is not clear whether Gracchus can be identified with the triumvir monetalis under Augustus in 15 BC. [1]
In 310 BC, Sempronius attained his first known political position as Tribune of the plebs, and played a major role in the domestic activities of Rome for that year.Indeed, for in that year the censor Appius Claudius Crassus, later to be known as Caecus, refused to abdicate his position despite his 18-month term being completed and the fact that his colleague had himself resigned in accordance ...
Evelyn Reid Syphax: An educator who was chair of the Arlington Public Schools Board. Mary Syphax Gibson: An educator who was the first black Member of the Washington DC School Board. Burke Syphax: A surgeon who led the Howard University Hospital Department of Surgery and was one of the first black people to become Board Certified in Surgery.
Sempronius, the nomen of the Roman gens Sempronia; Sempronius, a character in the play The Apple Cart; Sempronius, New York; Sempronius, Texas; Sempronius Stretton, a British Army officer and artist; Sempronius H. Boyd, U.S. Congressman from Missouri and U.S. Civil War Colonel. Sempronius, a fictional Roman senator in Cato, a Tragedy by Joseph ...
This Sempronia was the daughter of a Sempronius Tuditanus, and supposedly the mother of Publius Clodius Pulcher. However, as Clodius' wife was Fulvia, the daughter of a Sempronia and granddaughter of Sempronius Tuditanus, it seems that she was not the same Sempronia who married Brutus, and that the woman witnessing was actually Clodius' mother ...