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The death of Tiberius Gracchus in 133 BC has been viewed, both in the Roman period and in modern scholarship, as the start of a new period in which politics was polarised and political violence normalised. [122] [116]
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 ]
Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio (182 or 181 – 132 BC [1]) was a Roman politician.He is most well known for mobilising the mob which killed Tiberius Gracchus, who was at the time attempting to stand for re-election as plebeian tribune in 133 BC.
In terms of periodisation, the death of Tiberius Gracchus in 133 BC is widely viewed as the start of the "late republic" and the beginning of the republic's eventual collapse. [142] For example, in The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic, Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg writes:
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, quadrumvir monetalis and quaestor-designate c. 40 BC or after. [37] [38] Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, a lover of Julia, the daughter of Augustus, was banished in AD 2, and put to death upon the accession of Tiberius. Gaius Sempronius Gracchus, accused the senator Granius Marcianus of maiestas in AD 35. [39]
Gaius Sempronius Gracchus (c. 154 BC [1] – 121 BC) was a reformist Roman politician and soldier who lived during the 2nd century BC. He is most famous for his tribunate for the years 123 and 122 BC, in which he proposed a wide set of laws, including laws to establish colonies outside of Italy, engage in further land reform, reform the judicial system and system for provincial assignments ...
This Gracchus's son, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, became a priest in 203 BC and died, while an augur, in the plague in 174 BC. [citation needed] His brother Publius Sempronius Gracchus was the father of the Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus who was consul in 177 BC, [citation needed] whose sons Tiberius Gracchus and Gaius Gracchus were the famous ...
When conflict between Tiberius Gracchus and his opponents came to a head, Publius Mucius Scaevola publicly refused to support Scipio Nasica's attempt to depose Gracchus. But following Tiberius' death he tried to restore stability to the Senate, by retrospectively approving the violent events he had previously refused to support. [19]