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Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (c. 163-133 BCE) and his younger brother Gaius (c. 154-121 BCE) were tribunes of the plebs in the Roman Republic. Serving in 133 BCE, Tiberius introduced a land reform but was beaten to death after his term. Eleven...

Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus were a pair of tribunes of the plebs from the 2nd century BCE, who sought to introduce land reform and other populist legislation in ancient Rome. They were both members of the Populares, a group of politicians...

Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi brothers, oil on canvas by Umberto Ruini, 1892. Civic Museum of Modena.

The Gracchi, sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume, 19th century. Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

Tondo of the Two Brothers, mummy portrait of two men from Fayum, Egypt, 2nd century CE. Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Although traditionally assumed to be brothers, recent scholarship has suggested that they may have in fact been lovers.

A sheet of papyrus with an extract from the Egyptian 'Tale of Two Brothers' (Papyrus D'Orbiney). 19th Dynasty, 1185 BCE. (British Museum, London)

A c. 1821 painting attributed to John Welsey Jarvis of the pirate brothers Pierre and Jean Lafitte (also spelt Laffite, c. 1780-1820/26) who operated in the Gulf of Mexico from 1810 to 1820. (Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans)

Martyrdom of the Seven Maccabee Brothers and Their Mother, stained glass by Dirck Vellert, Antwerp, c. 1530-35. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

An illustration of an episode from Roman legend, in which the Etruscan noblemen Caelius and Aulus Vibenna escape from their captors and slay them. Illustration by Zvonimir Grbasic.

When Temüjin (later known as Genghis Khan) needed help to find his kidnapped wife, Börte, his blood brother and friend Jamukha came to his aid, and the two eventually combined their camps and families. But peace would not last long...