March 15 is associated with misfortune and doom. On this day, Roman dictator Julius Caesar was murdered at the hands of ...
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Commentary: After all, the play’s the thing — Alexandra Paskhaver
We had done our practices in T-shirts and all, but the night before the big scene, my performance troupe decided we needed to have togas. Do I own a toga? No. Have I ever owned a toga? No. Can you ...
Beware the Ides of March” is what many Baby Boomers have been doing since reading those ominous words from a soothsayer ...
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, ...
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.