Beware the Ides of March? Charles A. Dana Professor of English Emerita Cynthia Lewis explores how prophets in Shakespeare's ...

The ides of March (March 15) have been ominous since 44 BCE when Julius Caesar was stabbed to death by Roman senators, ...

For those who don’t know, in “Julius Caesar,” Cassius is the guy who comes up to Brutus and says something along the lines of “Have you considered chopping up our dictator like a salad?” And Brutus ...

You’ve likely heard the phrase “beware the Ides of March,” but what exactly is an Ides, and why the warning? In the ancient Roman calendar, the Ides fell in the middle of each month, not just March.