Gaius Blossius was, according to Plutarch

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, a philosopher and student of the Stoic

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 philosopher Antipater of Tarsus

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, from the city of Cumae

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 in Campania

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, Italy

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, who (along with the Greek

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 rhetoric

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ian, Diophanes) instigated Roman

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 tribune

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 Tiberius Gracchus

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 to pursue a land reform

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 movement on behalf of the plebs

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. Tiberius was accused by his political opponents of attempting to provoke a popular uprising, and have himself crowned King. Eventually, he was assassinated, and his body thrown into the river Tiber

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.

After the death of Tiberius Gracchus, Blossius was interrogated by the consul

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s on the matter. Blossius freely admitted that he had done anything Tiberius had asked. The consuls asked "What? What would you do if Tiberius ordered you to burn the Capitol

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?" He answered that Tiberius would never have given such an order. Being pressed on the point, though, Blossius eventually stated that Tiberius would only have ordered such a thing, if it were in the true interests of the Roman people. After that, he was released. Blossius went to the province of Asia, where he took part in Aristonicus

Eumenes III

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' popular uprising against Rome

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, aiding in the organization of the Heliopolis state. When the uprising was ultimately defeated, he killed himself.