Sempronia was the daughter of Cornelia the Mother of the Gracchi, the sister of the Roman reformers Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, and the wife of Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus, the general who destroyed Carthage in 146 B.C.
Scipio Aemilianus staunchly opposed Tiberius Gracchus' land reform measures, and after his assassination stated that Tiberius was "justly murdered." Sempronia is trapped in the middle of one of the most bitter intrafamilial feuds in history. Which side will she chose?