Person121 BC
Gaius Gracchus
Younger brother of Tiberius Gracchus who, as tribune (123–122 BC), extended his reforms with a grain law, and died in the clash with the Senate
Where they went
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The tribunes Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus tried to revive the small farmers by limiting large landholdings, but both were killed in the face of senatorial opposition.
People who appear alongside
- Tiberius Gracchus133 BC
Roman tribune (133 BC) whose land law limiting holdings of public land to restore small farmers led to his murder by senators
Themes this person appears in
- Greece and Rome2000 BC – AD 476
From the Aegean civilisation to the fall of the Western Roman Empire — the classical civilisation built by the democracy of the polis and the Roman republic and empire