In Our Time: The GracchiSeries 1, episode 11Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the brothers Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, whose names are entwined with the end of Rome's Republic and the rise of the Roman Emperors. As tribunes, they brought popular reforms to the Roman Republic at the end of the Second Century BC. However, elite rivals saw the reforms as such a threat that they had the brothers killed. An increase in political violence destabilised the Republic, forever tying the Gracchi to the question of why Rome's Republic gave way to the Rome of Emperors Click to see when In Our Time, The Gracchi is coming up on UK TV Cast (unconfirmed)
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