Mort de Tiberius Gracchus

This illustration depicts the death of Tiberius Gracchus, the Roman tribune of the plebs who was killed in 133 BCE during a major political crisis of the Roman Republic. An advocate of agrarian reforms intended to curb elite control over public land and to strengthen the civic base of small landholders, Tiberius Gracchus faced fierce opposition from the Senate. His death, in a context of growing social and institutional tensions, is often regarded as one of the first major episodes of open political violence in the history of the late Roman Republic. Although this is a later reconstruction, the image stages the brutality of that conflict and the fragility of Rome’s political balance.