Ti. Gracchus
Ti. Sempronius Gracchus
- Tr. pl. 133
- Tries to solve agrarian crisis
- Has important senatorial support
- Commission set up
- Reclaims land held in excess of legal limit
- Redistributes such land in small parcels to citizens
- Objections of landholders greater than anticipated
- Other tr. pl. vetoes proposal
- Troublemaker removed from office by law
- Attalid kingdom bequeathed to Rome by last king
- Ti. passes law accepting bequest
- Subverts senate's prerogative of control over foreign policy
- Tries to get himself re-elected
- Re-election not illegal, but unprecedented
- Threat to constitution?
- If he gets re-elected once, why not forever?
- Mob of senators attacks assembly
- Violence introduced into domestic politics
- Where will it stop?
War in Asia
- Revolt against Roman rule
- Initial Roman disaster
- Revolt soon suppressed
- Third province without a new praetor
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