Re: 15 March 44 B.C.: Happy Death Day, Julius Caesar

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Fergie wrote:

> 00:01.
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> [snip]
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> On this day in 44 B.C., Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, 
> Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
>
> In the Roman calendar the Ides of March fell on the 15th day of the Roman month of Martius.
>
> Although the Roman calendar was eventually displaced by the modern days of the week around the 3rd century AD, 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 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 saying March 15th.
 
In March, July, October, May
The IDES fall on the fifteenth day
The NONES the seventh; all besides
Have two days less for Nones and Ides.


Ah, the benefits of a classical education ...

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