Rome Movie 2

Today’s Western Civilizations class brought us more of the Rome movie that we started to watch on Monday. In today’s portion, we picked up right where we left off on Monday with Tiberius’s battle in Spain. This was a difficult battle for Rome and it ultimately ended in there defeat. Actually the only reason that they made it out alive was because they sent Tiberius to negotiate with the enemy, after they refused to negotiate with their first peace envoy. Tiberius earned them a hero’s welcome back in Rome, since he was able to talk the enemy into letting them go. However, the senate was not so happy. They called for the punishment of Tiberius and the general, but then, one of the senate member’s saved Tiberius. Also, Tiberius’s mother said something that I would like to comment on, “I would like to be known as the mother of Tiberius Gracchus.” The funny thing about this is that she meant that she wants to be remembered as the mother of a great person. However, Tiberius could be the worst ruler human kind has ever known, and she would still be known as his mother.