Supporters and Opponents of Tiberius Gracchus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9357159 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Briscoe (University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Pages | 125-135 |
| Publication date | 1974-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Roman Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0075-4358 • E-ISSN: 1753-528X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/299264 |
| OpenAlex | W2334274479 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 2 |
Although a considerable amount of work has been devoted to the identification of the supporters and opponents of Tiberius Gracchus, the central feature of the prosopographical picture that emerges has not been given the attention it deserves. For Tiberius Gracchus, whose mother was both the sister of the adoptive father of Scipio Aemilianus and the niece of Scipio's natural father, and whose sister was married to Aemilianus, found his most notable noble supporters among those who were political opponents of Aemilianus. In the context of Roman politics as they operated in the pre-Gracchan era, that is a very remarkable situation, and one that merits further investigation. For if it is the case that Tiberius Gracchus broke away from his inherited connections to join the political opponents of those connections, it is worth asking what consequences and repercussions this action had. We might expect to find persons who could be put into the following categories: ( a ) other former supporters of Aemilianus, who joined Gracchus in his break-away, ( b ) friends of Aemilianus who remained loyal to him, ( c ) opponents of Aemilianus who would not accept the Gracchan programme, and ( d ) opponents of Aemilianus who supported Gracchus. What follows is an attempt to define the membership of the various categories. I restrict myself to this process of identification: I am not here concerned with the larger question of the extent to which the motives of those who supported Gracchus were purely factional and how far they genuinely backed the Gracchan programme. On these, and many other matters, one will naturally turn now to Badian's exhaustive survey in the first volume of Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt
Context (archaeology · Genealogy · Identification (biology · Nephew and niece · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Prosopography · Sister · Sociology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Studies and Legal History · Classics · History · Law · Linguistics and language evolution
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| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1979 - 2025 (47) |
| Highly cited | No |