
Episode CXXVIII - Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi (Gracchi I)
Emperors of Rome
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Mother of the Gracce
She becomes known to us through her children, but it's also said something quite a lot about the real life at the time that of the 12 children, three survived to adult onye. So really, from this point, she becomes known and always described as mother of doesn't she? She's quite involved in the upbringing of her children, and that seems to become, as far as we know, a focal point of her life. Yes, pliny was also quite amazed by the fact that she managed to alternate the gender of each childye,. i'm not completely convinced that pliny would have known the exact order of her children's births given that only two of them become very famous
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