so, popsie creeped me out this morning when he whispered in my ear, "beware of the ides of march..."
huh? what the hell does that mean?
he wasnt sure...he just knew it was today and he thought that it was from Hamlet. i bet him he was wrong about hamlet. if he was right, i promised to wax only my left eyebrow.
phew! he was wrong. i did get curious though and looked it up. here's some interesting things to know about the ides of march, or march 15th:
Generally speaking, a term from the ancient Roman calendar. The Ides fell on the 15th day of March, May, July, or October or the 13th day of any other month. Thus the Ides of March was the 15th day of March.
Specifically, the term is best known because Julius Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March in 44 BC.
Because of William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar and its line "Beware the Ides of March", the term "Ides of March" has come to mean a foreboding of doom.
Thee Mighty Caesars, a garage/punk group fronted by Billy Childish, named an LP "Beware the Ides of March" released in 1985.
The Ides of March are celebrated every year by the Rome Hash House Harriers with a toga run in the streets of Rome, in the same place where Julius Caesar was killed.
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In high school Latin, we were taught to that the Romans had a class of days referred to as 'nefas' or 'dies nefasti'. Days were bad things happened on these days were considered nefas/ cursed. They were holidays where Roman society stood still. The days were considered cursed, and subsequently, anything you tried getting done on those days...also cursed.
The Ides of March was one of those days. fyi.
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