The Gracchi
287 BC: Lex Hortensia
(binding plebiscita)
Publius Cornelius
Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Numantinus (victor over Carthage in 146, Numantia
in 133, brother-in-law & opponent of the Gracchi)
Appius Claudius Pulcher
(princeps Senatus, member of the triumviri, father-in-law
of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus)
Quintus Caecilius
Metellus Macedonicus (suppressor of slave revolt in 133; enemy of P. Cornelius
Scipio & of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus; 1st plebeian censor)
Plutarch, Appian,
Livy, Sallust: sources for the Gracchi
Tiberius Sempronius
Gracchus
father: Ti. Sempronius Gracchus, twice-consul,
once censor
mother: Cornelia daughter of Publius Cornelius
Scipio Africanus
brother-in-law (married to sister Sempronia):
Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Numantinus
father-in-law: Appius Claudius Pulcher
brother: Gaius Sempronius Gracchus
Lex Sempronia
princeps senatus
Publius Licinius
Crassus, father-in-law of Gaius Sempronius Gracchus
Publius Mucius Scaevola,
cos. in 133
Concilium Plebis
= Plebeian Assembly
Marcus Octavius &
Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica (cousin, opponent and murderer of Tiberius
Sempronius Gracchus)
triumviri agris iudicandis
assignandis ("commission of three charged with adjudicating the assigning
of [public] lands") in 133:
Ti. Sempronius Gracchus
G. Sempronius Gracchus
App. Claudius Pulcher
Attalus, King of Pergamum,
d. 133 BC
P. Popilius Laenas,
cons. 132 BC
G. Papirius Carbo,
pleb. tribune 131 BC, lex Papiria
M. Fulvius Flaccus,
triumvir, consul in 125 BC
Colony of Junonia
(formerly Carthage) established 122 BC
M. Livius Drusus,
pleb. tribune 122 BC
L. Opimius, consul
122 BC