Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (Consul 177 BC)

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Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus the Elder († 154 BC ) was a Roman politician of the 2nd century BC. Chr.

Career

Tiberius Gracchus came from the plebeian nobility and thus belonged to the ruling class of the Roman Republic . 190 BC He took part in the war against Antiochus III. of Syria and was sent as an envoy to Philip V of Macedonia, whom he received in 185 BC. Visited a second time. 184 BC He became tribune of the people and 182 BC Curular aedile . As praetor 180 BC In the following two years as proconsul he successfully waged wars against the Celtiberians in Spain. 178 BC He traded with the Numantiern, a Celtiberian tribe, signed a peace treaty. He also founded a city named after himself Gracchuris, and probably the city of Iliturgi. He was awarded a triumph which he celebrated on February 3, 178.

In the following year, 177 BC. Gracchus became consul and continued as proconsul in the following two years, waging war in Sardinia . For these successes he was able to 175 BC. To hold a triumph. 169 BC He was censor and had the Basilica Sempronia named after him (perhaps later) built on the Roman Forum . 165 and 162-161 BC He traveled to Asia Minor as an envoy. 163 BC He reached a second consulate and took over the administration of Sardinia (and Corsica ) again, also in the following year as proconsul. He died in 154 BC. And was buried with the highest honors.

Like his sons later, he stood up for the poor and never went against his principles. He married 25-year-old Cornelia , a woman of the highest nobility , even in her 50s . Her father Publius Cornelius Scipio had 202 BC. BC in the battle of Zama the Carthaginian general Hannibal was decisively defeated and received the honorary name Africanus . She gave Tiberius 12 children, of which only Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus the Younger and Gaius Sempronius Gracchus and a daughter survived childhood. The two sons later campaigned as tribunes for social reforms and both perished.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Livy XL 35.2 and 35.8 to 9
  2. ↑ Livius XL 47.1--50.5
  3. ↑ Livy XLI 26.1
  4. ↑ Livy XLI 7.1 to 3

literature

personal data
SURNAME Sempronius Gracchus, Tiberius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gracchus, Tiberius Sempronius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician, consul in 177 and 163 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 154 BC Chr.