Historical story

Assassination of Gaius Gracchus:Another Version

Assassination of Caius Gracchus (painting by Félix Auvray)

The one provided by Plutarch it is one of the best known and most accredited versions of the assassination of Caio Gracchus (https://www.pilloledistoria.it/10416/storia-antica/come-mori-caio-gracco-la-versione-di-plutarco), but it is not the only one.

According to another feasible account, in 121 BC, the brave tribune of the plebs was captured alive together with the faithful slave Philocrates, who, eager to defend his beloved master to the end, hugged him so tightly and tightly that he could not be killed until after repeatedly killing him himself.

Neither the enemies of the Gracchi stopped here:it is said that in Licinia, wife of Caius, she was forbidden to mourn and even her dowry was confiscated by the authorities.

With the Gracchi, Caio and Tiberio, Rome lost two of its most illustrious men and politicians.