It’s March 15, and you all know what that means: It’s time to celebrate the Ides of March. Get excited!
In the Roman calendar, the Ides signified the 15th of March, May, July and October, and the 13th of all other months. (Aside: The Roman calendar was weird.) Of course, March is the only one we care about, for good reason: That’s when Julius Caesar was killed, after apocryphally ignoring a warning to “beware the Ides of March.” That murder eventually led to a civil war that led to Octavian seizing power, which in turn led to the Roman Empire. So it all worked out, in retrospect.
How are you celebrating the Ides of March? Some ideas:
How to celebrate the Ides of March
What are you going to do?
-Originally publishedMarch 15, 2011