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    Author: * Heraklia Aelius - 18 Posts on this thread out of 7,303 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Aug 15, 2007 - 11:03

    Of course, it's just not the Gracchi, it's the whole environment in which they lived. Just off the top of my head, a few similarities with the issues that would be dealt with up to and including Octavian:

    1. Land reform and the problems of public land;
    2. How to compensate veterans (colonies, etc.)
    3. The entire structure of senate vs. assembly legislation;
    4. The use of tribunes to force through legislation;
    5. The question of having tribunes serve multiple terms;
    6. The issues raised by Asian tax farming and plundering the provinces;
    7. The rights or lack of rights of the rest of Italia;
    8. And, of course, the ultimate issue - that when the Senate became threatened enough, radical tribunes were murdered. *shudder* Quelle precedent!


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