
Episode CXXVIII - Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi (Gracchi I)
Emperors of Rome
Cornelia's Writings - Is She a Great Writer?
We do have two excerpts of letters that cornelia is supposed to have written to gaius the year before he was killed. Most ancient historians think that these are not genuine fragments at allornelia didn't write them. The interesting thing about these extracts, especially the longer one, is that they give us a cornelia who really objects to the revolutionary turn that tiberius and gaius have taken.
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