What Really Is Beware The Ides Of March?

Beware of the Ides of March – MeaningOn this day, March 15, 44 BC, Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate. Though 60 people were involved in the assassination, the most cabal was Marcus Brutus, a great friend of Julius Caesar.

March 15 is known as as the Ides of March, a day of great dread and foreboding. However in Roman culture, the Ides used to occur at the midway of every month and was meant to be a time of festivity and possibly a tribute to one of their gods. Basically, the Ides of March is typically a celebration of Mars, the Roman God of War.

After Ceasar’s murder, the Ides of March took on, in superstition and was immortalized by William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar. Shakespeare gave life to this drama by adding a line “Beware the Ides of March” as Caesar enters the Senate.

So this is more or less a tribute to Caesar.
Also on this date, Czar Nicholas II of Russia is abdicated, the date being exactly March 15, 1917.