Tiberius Gracchus it could be said, was one of the most influential figures within Roman Antiquity, both in life and the circumstances created as a result of his death…Becoming Tribune in 133 B.C., he represented the plebian class in res publica. Gracchus was an instrumental force behind a very controversial land bill, that proposed to separate the large landed estates and then, redistribute these sizeable parcels of land (latifundias) back to the downtrodden plebian farmers. Essentially, with the intention of closing the ever increasing financial/power rift between the poor and the very rich…
This brash political maneuver, to seal the socio-economic chasm that had been progressively developing between the two classes, was viewed by the
This brash political maneuver, to seal the socio-economic chasm that had been progressively developing between the two classes, was viewed by the