Marcus Fulvius Flaccus (consul 125 BC)

Marcus Fulvius Flaccus (M. Fulvius Flaccus Mf; * to 168 BC; † 121 BC) was a politician of the Roman Republic and ally of the Gracchi. It was 130 BC administrator of the agrarian reform and suggested as a solution to the problem of land distribution between the allied cities of Roman citizenship to the citizens of these cities before, a topic that should excite Roman politics for many years. As consul of 125 BC, he was commissioned by the Senate to support Massilia (today Marseille) against the depredations of Salluvier.

Flaccus conquered large parts of Gallia Narbonensis and returned in 123 BC with a triumphal return. 122 BC, he and Gaius Sempronius Gracchus tribune. In the same year he went to Africa to found on the ruins of Carthage, a Roman colony Colonia Junonia.

When he and Gracchus reelection in 121 BC failed, organized Flaccus a mass protest on the Aventine, which was violently suppressed by the consul Lucius Opimius, where first the posted truce young son of Flaccus was killed and then and besides Gaius Sempronius Gracchus Marcus Fulvius Flaccus many others, came to death.

  • Consul ( Roman Republic )
  • Fulvii
  • Born in the 2nd century BC
  • Died 121 BC
  • Man
Roman consul Gaius Gracchus Africa (Roman province) Aventine Hill
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