Communications in Humanities Research
- The Open Access Proceedings Series for Conferences
Communications in Humanities Research
Vol. 2, 28 February 2023
Open
Access | Article
From the Death of the Gracchi Brothers to the Downfall of the Republic
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
This paper aims to trace the legacy of the Gracchi brothers and the effect of their reform throughout the republican era, specifically over how it foreshadows the collapse of the Republic. Although the reform implemented by the Gracchus brothers failed, it is still of great historical importance because it reveals the corrupted nature of Roman republic while taking the socioeconomic background into consideration to predict the downfall Rome. The downfall of the Gracchi brothers was primarily resulted from the majority of the senators whose interests were against the reform measures because the benefits for the majority were built on the lost of the senators. As a result, the Senate refused to accept changes of any sort and rejected an opening advancement proposed to improve the welfare of the People, leading to the tragedy of the death of Gracchi brothers.
Keywords
the downfall of Roman Republic, the Gracchi brothers, reform measures in Rome
References
1. D. W. Baronowski, (1995). Polybius on the causes of the Third Punic War. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/367442
2. Cato, M. (1934) 2. (Eds.), on Agriculture. Loeb Classical Library.
3. Boren, HC. (1958) The Urban Side of the Gracchan Economic Crisis. The American Historical Review 63, No. 4: 890-902.
4. Plutarch. (1921) 8. (Eds.), The Life of Tiberius Gracchus. Loeb Classical Library. pp. 161-163.
5. Morgan, M.G., Walsh, J.A. (1978) Ti. Gracchus (TR. PL. 133 B.C.), The Numantine Affair, and the Deposition of M. Octavius. Classical Philology Vol 73, No. 3: 200-210
6. J. S. RICHARDSON. (1980) Ownership of Roman land: Tiberius Gracchus and the Italians. The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol 70: 1-11
7. Plutarch. (1921) 12. (Eds.), The Life of Tiberius Gracchus. Loeb Classical Library. pp. 173-175.
8. Plutarch. (1921) 15. (Eds.), The Life of Tiberius Gracchus. Loeb Classical Library. pp. 183-185.
9. Appian. (1913) 16. (Eds.), The Civil Wars. Loeb Classical Library. pp. 33-35.
10. Plutarch. (1921) 20. (Eds.), The Life of Tiberius Gracchus. Loeb Classical Library. pp. 191-193.
11. Plutarch. (1921) 4. (Eds.), The Life of Tiberius Gracchus. Loeb Classical Library. pp. 151-153.
12. Scullard, H.H.. (1959), THE GRACCHI. (Eds.), From the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome 133 BC to AD 68. Routledge, Oxon. pp. 52-68.
13. Plutarch. (1921) 5. (Eds.), The Life of Caius Gracchus. Loeb Classical Library. pp. 209-211.
14. Appian. (1913) 11. (Eds.), The Civil Wars. Loeb Classical Library. pp. 23-25.
Data Availability
The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study will be available from the authors upon reasonable request.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Authors who publish this series agree to the following terms:
1. Authors retain copyright and grant the series right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this series.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the series's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this series.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See Open Access Instruction).
- Volume Title
- Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Educational Innovation and Philosophical Inquiries (ICEIPI 2022), Part III
- ISBN (Print)
- 978-1-915371-11-9
- ISBN (Online)
- 978-1-915371-12-6
- Published Date
- 28 February 2023
- Series
- Communications in Humanities Research
- ISSN (Print)
- 2753-7064
- ISSN (Online)
- 2753-7072
- DOI
- 10.54254/2753-7064/2/20220290
- Copyright
- 28 February 2023
- Open Access
- This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited