A wife of one member of this family wrote two letters to her sons that begin with the line "you say that exacting revenge on one's enemies is a beautiful thing" and those fragments survive in Cornelius Nepos. She notably studied rhetoric and was seen as a model upper class woman in later generations
A wife of one member of this family wrote two letters to her sons that begin with the line "you say that exacting revenge on one's enemies is a beautiful thing" and those fragments survive in Cornelius Nepos. She notably studied rhetoric and was seen as a model upper class woman in later generations. In addition to Cornelia Africana, another member of this family signed a treaty to prevent the destruction of the Roman army in the Numantian war, which was soon violated by his cousin. He was the target of the first senates consultum ultimum and he used Attalus III's gift of (*) Pergamum for funding his most famous program. He was rivals with his cousin Scipio Aemilianus and passed the Lex Sempronia Agraria, which gave public land to the poor and homeless in Rome. For 10 points, gives this cognomen shared by Gaius and Tiberius, who were tribunes.
A wife of one member of this family wrote two letters to her sons that begin with the line "you say that exacting revenge on one's enemies is a beautiful thing" and those fragments survive in Cornelius Nepos.
Gracchus [accept Gracchi]