Tiberius and Gaius Grachhi
... that of the Senate. Also Gaius was more of a leader with greater skills and the ability to win over the contempary and later Romans as Plutarch’s writing shows “He was incomparably the greatest orator in Rome”. Significant actions of which Tiberius carried out include: Introduction of the Land bill which allowed small farms to be created out side of Rome, present owners of land were only able to hold onto 130 hectares, improvements to land required compensation charges, new owners had to pay small rate and were unable to sell there holdings. Rather than presenting this bill to the Consuls as they would traditionally, he took it to the Assembly and with no help from Ocatvius he still managed to get the bill passed however the consuls did not agree to fund this so Tiberius took further measures to cover the expense by using King Attulas’ inheritance to Rome. With his success in politics Tiberius decided to run for second term as tribune which was unprecedented and illegal. Tiberius having only one major reform compared to the several of which Gaius provided the Romans amplifies how much Gaius’s skills were. Some of his reforms include: New road building projects to improve Rome's infrastructure for economic growth. Influencing Romans to colonise further into Italy and overseas. Introduced Corn Laws for the government to buy grain stocks and sell them back to the people at fixed prices. Improvements of Land laws, and military standards. Made bribery a capital offence. Tribunals of the senate with powers of capital punishment were now disallowed. Latinos were given full roman citizenship as Romans were Latin citizenship. The impacts on the republic through Tiberius’s actions include: the fact of not getting a bill passed through the Consuls disturbed the order of Roman political tradition as Cicero states in his writings “Tiberius Grachus shattered the stability of Rome”. Threatened all relationships between the Assemblies and senate and by showing how to use position in hierarchy can benefit threatened the position of the governing class who cared for only befitting themselves by preserving there privileges and status in politics. Deciding to go for second term as tribune further threatened stability in Roman tradition and order. Similar impacts of Tiberius’s actions, Gaius took advantage of tradition in law making and one major mistake was through allowing Latino’s to have equal rights as Romans which gave him a major loss in followers. The relationship with the Senate was very poor for Tiberius Grachus as he had infuriated them because of passing the bill to the assemblies rather the senate. The senate tried to veto the bill several times by bribing a fellow tribune of Tiberius known as Octavius to block it, after Tiberius proceeded with the bill the senate refused funds for it thus forcing him to resort to other means of funding. After bypassin...