Younger daughter of P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus and Aemilia Tertia, b. c. 190 BC; c. 176/5 she married Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus. Of her 12 children only three survived early childhood: Tiberius, Gaius and Sempronia.
C. is known as ‘Mother of the Gracchi’ (CIL VI 31610), with whose politics she was already associated in antiquity [1. 108-120; 127; 2. 48-89]. In a partly popular, partly elite tradition, the sources give …
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Eck, Werner (Cologne),
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