Research topic: Drusus

Drusus , Roman family of the gens Livius. An early distinguished member was Marcus Livius Drusus, d. 109? BC, tribune of the people (122) with Caius Sempronius Gracchus (see under Gracchi ). As a member of the senatorial party he led a successful attack on Gracchus by making more extreme democratic proposals than Gracchus had dared to. By these and other, more unscrupulous tactics, Drusus disgraced Gracchus. In 112, Drusus was made consul by the senatorial party. His son Marcus Livius Drusus, d. 91 BC, was also a leader of the senatorial party. His policy was to win the people and the... Read more