Gracchi brothers biography of martin

Ancient Roman brothers known for their social reforms

For the branch of gens Sempronia from which they came, see Sempronii Gracchi.

The Gracchi brothers were two brothers who lived during the beginning of the late Roman Republic: Tiberius Gracchus and Gaius Gracchus.

They served in the plebeian tribunates of 133 BC and 122–121 BC, respectively.

Gracchi brothers biography of martin

They have been received as well-born and eloquent advocates for social reform who were both killed by a reactionary political system; their terms in the tribunate precipitated a series of domestic crises which are viewed as unsettling the Roman Republic and contributing to its collapse.

Tiberius Gracchus passed legislation which established a commission to survey Roman public land, reassert state claims to it, and redistribute it to poor rural farmers.

These reforms were a reaction to a perceived decline in Italy's rural population. A decade later, Gaius Gracchus' reforms, among other things, attempted to