Ides of March
The Ides of March (Latin: [Idus Martiae] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), Late Latin: Idus Martii)[1] was a day in the Roman calendar. It means 15 March in Julian calendar. Several religious observances marked it as a deadline for settling debts.[2] In 44 BC, it is well known as the date of the assassination of Julius Caesar. This made the Ides of March a turning point in Roman history.
Ides Of March Media
- Sousse mosaic calendar March.JPG
Panel thought to depict the Mamuralia, from a mosaic of the months in which March is positioned at the beginning of the year (first half of the third century AD, from El Djem, Tunisia, in Roman Africa)
- Eid Mar.jpg
Reverse side of the Ides of March Coin (a denarius) issued by Caesar's assassin Brutus in the autumn of 42 BC, with the abbreviation EID MAR (Eidibus Martiis – "on the Ides of March") under a "cap of freedom" between two daggers
Related pages
- Julius Caesar, a play by William Shakespeare
References
- ↑ Anscombe, Alfred (1908). The Anglo-Saxon computation of historic time in the ninth century (PDF). British Numismatic Society. p. 396. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
- ↑ "Ides of March: what is it? Why do we still observe it?". 15 March 2011.
Other websites
- Plutarch, The Parallel Lives, The Life of Julius Caesar
- Nicolaus of Damascus, Life of Augustus (translated by Clayton M. Hall)
