Ides of March
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The Ides of March is the day on the Roman calendar marked as the Idus, roughly the midpoint of a month, of Martius, corresponding to 15 March on the Gregorian calendar. It was marked by several major
The Death of Julius Caesar (1806) by Vincenzo Camuccini
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)
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
Retrato de Julio César
Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator, was assassinated on the Ides of March, 44 BC, by a group of senators during a Senate session at the Curia of Pompey, located within the Theatre of Pompey in Rome. Th
Ides of March
…corresponding to 15 March on the Gregorian calendar. It was marked by several major religious observances. In 44 BC, it became notorious as the date of the assassination of Julius Caesar, which made the Ides of March a turning point in Roman history. The Romans did not number each day of a month from the first to the last day. Instead…
The Death of Julius Caesar (1806)
Possible bust of Julius Caesar, posthumous portrait in marble, 44–30 BC
The city of Rome, 44 BC
![An anachronistic illustration by Johannes Zainer [de], c. 1474](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Woodcut_illustration_of_Porcia_Catonis_counseling_Marcus_Junius_Brutus%2C_Julius_Caesar%27s_death_at_the_hands_of_Brutus_and_Gaius_Cassius_Longinus%2C_and_Porcia%27s_suicide_-_Penn_Provenance_Project.jpg/500px-Woodcut_illustration_of_Porcia_Catonis_counseling_Marcus_Junius_Brutus%2C_Julius_Caesar%27s_death_at_the_hands_of_Brutus_and_Gaius_Cassius_Longinus%2C_and_Porcia%27s_suicide_-_Penn_Provenance_Project.jpg)
An anachronistic illustration by Johannes Zainer [de], c. 1474