title: The Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire II: Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus and Malchus: 002 (ARCA)
author: R.C. Blockley
description: "...an indispensable work which ... can be expected to increase the accessibility and encourage study of the historians concerned..." -- <i>Phoenix 40 (1986) 118-20</i>
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  Sempronia the Sister of the Gracchi
  
  
  
  
  
  Table of Contents.
  
  
  Introduction
  
  
  Chronology
  
  
  1. My Illustrious family.
  
  
  2. My Childhood.
  
  
  3. My Youth.
  
  
  4. Marriage to Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus.
  
  
  5. Simabal and Ectorius.
  
  
  6. The Annihilation of Numantia.
  
  
  7. My Brother Tiberius.
  
  
  8. Murder in the Forum.
  
  
  9. The Death of Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus.
  
  
  10. The Prophesy.
  
  
  11. Polybius.
  
  
  12. The Death of My Brother Gaius Gracchus.
  
  
  13. Folly and Discord.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Introduction to Sempronia, the Sister of the Gracchi
  
  
  
  
  
  “Unlovely, unloving, and unloved.” Was how ancient historians described
  Sempronia Graccha, the only surviving daughter of Cornelia the Mother of the
  Gracchi. The ancient historians were exclusively men, and often, men with a
  bias. The only ancient writer who has a kind word to say about Sempronia was
  Valerius Maximus, and he also had a bias.
  
  
  Sempronia, the eldest of three surviving children of Cornelia