The brothers Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus were plebians from the Sempronia family who became famous for their radical populism, attempts to improve the living conditions/livelihoods of Rome's underclasses and varingly successful attempts to push land reform. Tiberius, popular but virulently hated by the Optimates, was beaten to death with chairs by pro-aristocrat senators after running for tribune an unprecedented second time (which he probably would have won.) The younger brother Gaius took up his brother's torch, also became Tribune of the Plebians, and passed many land reforms as well as instituting free grain rations for the poor. Having successfully gotten himself re-elected as tribune, the feat over which his brother was killed, he lost a good deal of his support for trying to extend citizenship to non-citizen allies of Rome and commited suicide before a mob whipped up by the Optimates set off to kill him.
I got to thinking about these guys because of a post @Skallagrim made on the Favorite Mythological Heroes thread. Using whatever POD you'd like, make it so that the Gracchi are successful in pushing their populist reforms through and instituting them as firm components of Roman society (i.e: not something that would be reversed by the Optimates shortly after their deaths.)
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