Why Did Tiberus Want To Reform

Tiberius Gracchus had several motivations to reform. The first one was that the Tiberius’s energy and ambition on political because Tiberius wanted to recover public land for poor people, this assumption was based on some writing was posted on house-walls, porticoes, and monuments. The second motivation could be coming from Tiberius wanted to avenge his humiliation, since Tiberius rejected the 137 surrender terms, this behavior assumed that Tiberius wanted to against the senate on purpose in public; however, at the same time Tiberius was supported by the prominent senior senators as well, they provided huge power on Tiberius's reform. The third motivation could be that Tiberius wanted to safeguard the interests of the military. Since most Rome's
soldiers were coming from small land owners, if they lost their land, they would not willing to contribute Rome's army anymore. In order to keep the Roman army, Tiberius's reform also included restoring the small landholders, which referred to Rome's large group of soldiers.

Tiberius Gracchus believed that the biggest problem was that small farmers did not have enough land, therefore, Tiberius's reform was focusing on recover land to people especially on poor unemployed. Many small farmers supported Tiberius, however, recovering land action violated the interests of the aristocracy, and then Tiberius was against by most aristocracy even after he died. Gaius Gracchus took up the reform issues after Tiberius died, however, Gaius was against by most aristocracy as well; gradually Gaius Gracchus lost control of his coalition, and was skilled by a slave's sword. People were hard to find their own mistakes, the same thing also happened to Tiberius. There were some differences between Tiberius and Caius Gracchus. The first difference could be that their political actions and the state revolutions were different. Tiberius was eager to recover the public lands, however, that political action was against by Caius. Different political views led Tiberius and Caius Gracchus has different evaluation by in their portrayal of Tiberius. In addition, Tiberius and Caius Gracchus had different attitude when they faced death, which referred to their courage. When Tiberius and Caius Gracchus fight with their fellow-citizens who were killed at all, however, Tiberius and Caius Gracchus chose to escape; Agis wanted to contribute his life in war, and Agis did not want to make any citizen in danger, which was a reason why the accounts differ in their portrayal of Tiberius.