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Episode CXXVIII - Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi (Gracchi I)

Emperors of Rome

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Are the Sons of Plutarch Influenced by Cornelia?

Tiberius and guy are both prominent as popular leaders who become tribunes of the people. Both use cornelia in their speeches quite often, so they make use of her as supposed already this idealized figure. She's important because she had this really significant guy as her son. She brought him up. How dare you insult her? But then he carries on having a go at this man through cornelia, and in this very complicated way. The romans often attacked men for supposedly being sexually inadequate or sexually deviant. You'r encouraging men to have sex with your children,. So she's also better than you when it comes to that. Not only did she do that

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