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Thanks to everyone who backs the project and now on with the podcast. Ah they and welcome to Emperors of Rome, a Roman history podcast from Latrobe University. I'm your host Matt Smith and with me today is Associate Professor Rianna Evans, Senior Lecture in Classics

and Ancient History at Latrobe University. This is episode CXXX-U unpopular reforms.

Tiberius Gracus had introduced land reforms to Republican Rome,

which basically took the land away from the rich

and redistributed it to the normal people.

This reform was unpopular with the ruling class,

but it was a hit amongst the normal people of Rome.

Now you can please some of the people all of the time

and all of the people some of the time but that's just politics isn't it

it's hardly something to lose your head over here's Rhianna Evans now Tiberius is going to run

into trouble because there are those who want this law vetoed and so they persuade one of the

fellow tribunes who's called Marcus Octavius.

No relation.

To do that.

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