2006-07-25 13:59:05 · 8 answers · asked by Touting Rain 1 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
Its Ides of March.
2006-07-25 14:01:57 · answer #1 · answered by drinkupmehearties 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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It was Julius Caesar who was told to "beware the ides of March". It was the Roman name for15 March.
In the Roman calendar, the Ides of March fell on the 15th day of the Roman month of Martius. The word ides comes from a Latin word that means "to divide": The ides were simply the middle of the month.
The date is famous because Julius Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March, 44 BC. Because of Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar and its line “Beware the Ides of March”, the Ides of March has had a sense of doom. But in Roman times the Ides of March was simply the normal way of referring to March 15.
Although the Roman calendar was eventually displaced by the modern days of the week around the 3rd century, the Ides continued to be used in a vernacular sense for centuries afterwards. When Shakespeare wrote the famous line "Beware the Ides of March!" in his play Julius Caesar in 1599, he did so in the reasonable assumption that his audience would know the date of Caesar's death and so have a good idea of what the Ides were.
The Ides of March are celebrated every year by the Rome Hash House Harriers with a toga run in the streets of Rome, in the same place where Julius Caesar was killed.
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2006-07-25 21:08:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't remembrer Alexander the Great being told anything like that. But Julius was warned to beware the Ides of March, or the fifteenth of March. The Seer didn't tell him why, but that was the day he was murdered not only by his senators, but also by his best friend Brutus, which shocked him enough to say, E Tu Brute? Or and you Brutus.
2006-07-26 14:52:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That was Julius Caesar that was warned "Beware of the Ides of March". The Ides of March if the 15th of the month. That was the day that he was murdered.
2006-07-25 21:03:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually Julius Ceasar was told beware the Ides of march. It's the date he was betrayed and killed.
2006-07-25 21:02:30 · answer #5 · answered by evayne_9731 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was Julius Caesar, because he was going to be murdered that day 15 of March. And he was.
2006-07-25 22:11:07 · answer #6 · answered by Sakura ♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the Ides of March and it was Julius Caesar who was warned.
That was on the day of his assassination.
Shame he didn't respond to that warning.
2006-07-25 21:03:24 · answer #7 · answered by johnb693 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check out Roman history. Hint: "but not yet gone". "Et tu, Brutus"?
2006-07-25 21:06:08 · answer #8 · answered by lighthouse 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋