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The period of comparative calm through which Roman domestic politics had moved since the end of the Conflict of the Orders was brought to a close in 133 with the tribunate of Tiberius Gracchus. The following century was a period of almost continuous internal disorder, in the course of which the republican constitution was progressively disjointed and paralysed.
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The main sources on the Gracchi are Plutarch’s Lives and Appian’s Civil War, bk i. The most important passages from these two writers and from other sources are usefully collected for the period 133–70 B.c. in A. H. J. Greenidge, A. M. Clay and E. W. Gray, Sources for Roman History 133–70 B.C. (2nd edn, 1960).
The triumviri agris iudicandis adsignandis were probably eligible for annual re-election; in fact they changed only when vacancies were caused by death. See J. Carcopino, Autour des Graccques (1928, 2nd edn 1967), 149 ff.
Whether Tiberius introduced a law (Plutarch, On the contribution of archaeology to the agrarian problem in the Gracchan period see M. T. Frederiksen, Dialoghi di Archaeologia, iv—v (1970/1), 330 ff. For the view that the effective working of the reform was brief see J. Molthagen, Historia 1973, 423 ff.
Whether Tiberius introduced a law (Plutarch, On the contribution of archaeology to the agrarian problem in the Gracchan period see M. T. Frederiksen, Dialoghi di Archaeologia, iv—v (1970/1), 330 ff. For the view that the effective working of the reform was brief see J. Molthagen, Historia 1973, 423 ff.
see J. Bradford, Ancient Landscapes (1957), 197 ff.;
R. Chevallier, Mélanges d’Arch. 1958, 61 ff.
On the Roman campaigns in the south of France, many of the details of which are uncertain, see C. Jullian, Histoire de la Gaule, III. 1 ff. Cf. also C. H. Benedict, ‘The Romans in Southern Gaul’, Al Phil. 1942, 38 ff., and A History of Narbo (1941), ch. i.
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Cary, M., Scullard, H.H. (1975). Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus. In: A History of Rome. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02415-5_20
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