Do You Believe That Tiberius And Gaius Gracchus Were Genuinely Seeking To Help The Poor (As They Claimed) Or That They Sought Personal Power (As The Senate Claimed)? Why?
Do you believe that Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus were genuinely seeking to help the poor (as they claimed) or that they sought personal power (as the Senate claimed)? Why?
In the year 1331, a tribune, Tiberius Gracchus, was murdered in Rome near the door of the Temple of Juppiter Capitolinus. His body, with those of his 300 supporters was thrown into the Tiber, and, for the first time since the overthrow of the tyrant Tarquinius Superbus, Roman blood was spilled in Rome by Romans. His aims, seen by the main perpetrator and his supporters Scipio Nasica, were that of power and of ...