EPISODE · Apr 3, 2026 · 27 MIN
Episode 25. Tiberius Gracchus: Reform and the Precedent of Murder
from Real Roman History · host Hugo Prudentius
Works CitedPrimary SourcesAppian. Civil Wars, Book 1, chapters 7–17. The analytical account of the agrarian crisis and the tribunate.Cicero. De Re Publica and De Legibus. A hostile-sympathetic perspective; Cicero respected Tiberius's goals but condemned his methods.Plutarch. “Life of Tiberius Gracchus.” The fullest narrative account; read with awareness of its moralizing purposes.Secondary SourcesBeard, Mary. SPQR. 2015. Accessible modern synthesis; good on why 133 BCE was genuinely a turning point.Gruen, Erich. The Last Generation of the Roman Republic. 1974. Political context and the senatorial perspective.Lintott, Andrew. Violence in Republican Rome. 1968, revised 1999. Essential on the constitutional implications of the killing.Stockton, David. The Gracchi. 1979. The standard modern treatment.
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