Person133 BC
Tiberius Gracchus
Roman tribune (133 BC) whose land law limiting holdings of public land to restore small farmers led to his murder by senators
Roman tribune (133 BC) whose land law limiting holdings of public land to restore small farmers led to his murder by senators
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.
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
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