ides of march

• Question:-Who was the older blonde woman at the very end of "The Ides of March"?
  I'm guessing Molly's Mom.....anyone??
  
  Answer:-
• Question:-what is the modern view of the Ides of March?
  i know the whole story how it was the day cesare was killed.
  but what does this day mean for people now?
  is there supposed to be bad luck today?
  or what do people believe happens on the Ides of March?
  
  thanks! just curious!
  
  Answer:-It means nothing - it really meant nothing then.
  
  Ancient people were always fooling with calenders - they did that non-stop. The Etruscans had devised a calender with "bad" and "good" days - and some of those were the "Ides (middle) of March".
  
  That sounded SO COOL to the Romans that they adopted all this nonsense - but it's as meaningless as any system of prognostication - like astrology or numerology or any of that horse dump.
• Question:-What is the significance of the 'Ides of March' or the river Rubicon?
  I think there is deeper meaning that cannot be found in an encyclopedia. It means that when you are facing the devil, win or lose, and whatever the outcome is, then at least we gave it our best shot.
  
  Answer:-Crossing the Rubicon has come to mean crossing the point of no return. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon river with his legion on his way to Rome, he knew there was no turning back, it meant civil war. As for the Ides of March, that was when Caesar was assassinated & I don't know of any deeper meaning to this. The old saying "Beware the Ides of March" comes from Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.
• Question:-why do the conspirators want Caesar to go the Capitol on the ides of March?
  Why did they want to kill him [Caesar] in the Capitol? Why not just do it secretly or something? .... Julius Caesar book.
  
  Answer:-They are trying to make it a public spectacle. If the killing is done privately no one will know why Caesar died, i.e. to stop him from becoming king. Since it was public the conspirators could show they felt no shame for what they did, and could claim to have acted in the best interests of the SPQR. It failed of course, but if the killing had been private they would have been spat upon as cowards and traitors rather than the murderers they were viewed as in the play (being a coward was worse in Rome and being a traitor is arguably still worse today.)
• Question:-How does the ides of march end?
  I had an emergency and had to leave the theater and I missed the ending. I saw up to the point of that Mollys funeral. Can someone please tell me how it ended?
  
  Answer:-Here's a synopsis of the plot points leading up to the conclusion: http://gunsjy.blogspot.com/2011/10/ides-of-march-ending-credits.html
  
  and here's an explanation about the film and its ending:
  http://modigmovie.weebly.com/1/post/2011/10/inquiry-43-explaining-the-end-of-ides-of-march.html
• Question:-Can someone write a paragraph on what the Ides of March is?
  This isn't homework, I just kinda want to know what it is in detail, and a paragraph sounds more than enough for it.
  Reply to 1st answer: This isn't even work. I just want to know what the Ides of March is.
  
  Answer:-Beware the Ides of March!! It is today!
  
  Originally, the "Ides of March" was just the Roman name for the fifteenth of March and had no more significance than any other date. There is an ides in every month. It has become well known as the date given to Ceaser by a soothsayer who was warning him that there was a plot against his life. The expression "Ides of March" has been used by authors since that time to portray a warning or give their text an expectation of an imminent sinister event. It has been used in the genre of horror in movies and the expression has become detached from its original Latin meaning.
  
  In the link below you will find more details of this and the different parts of the month as named by the Romans.
• Question:-Seniors: What is meant by the "Ides of March" in Shakespeare?
  I didn't study Shakespeare in high school, as we studied the works of Chaucer. So after all of these
  years, I've forgotten what "Beware, the Ides of March" was all about. Have we had the "Ides" yet?
  
  Answer:-The Ides of March (Latin: Idus Martias) is the name of March 15 in the Roman calendar. The term ides was used for the 15th day of the months of March, May, July, and October. The Ides of March was a festive day dedicated to the god Mars and a military parade was usually held. In modern times, the term Ides of March is best known as the date that Julius Caesar was assassinated in 709 AUC or 44 B.C.
  
  In William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, Caesar is warned to "beware the Ides of March."
• Question:-Are the Ides of March truely a time when people are jerks?
  What exactly are the ides of march? I know it has something to do with the Romans and Julius Caeser, but is it true people get really cranky and rude around the middle of march? Can someone explain this to me? I have been really pissy lately and so has everyone else, and I am curious if that has to do with it, and if it is true. Is it some kind of phenomenon where people are just not themselves in the middle of march? I have always heard stuff like that and I need to know the truth, it's bugging me!
  
  Answer:-The ides of march or march 15th is the day the Caesar was stabbed by the senators led in a revolt by brutus! a fortune teller told Caesar "beware of the ides of March" but he ignored the warning.
• Question:-In Julius Caesar what were the strange thing happening the night before the Ides of March?
  test tomorrow. just trying to study a little
  
  Answer:-I'm not sure if it happens in the Shakespearean play. But the night before his wife has a dream about him dying and begs him not to go to the senate that day he doesn't listen though.
• Question:-Why was it so critical that Caesar was to be killed on the ides of March?
  Why was it so critical that Caesar was to be killed on the ides of March? Like why couldn't Caesar be assassinated on another day?
  
  (Sorry if this might sound stupid I'm just really curious. Shakespeare and the story of Julius Caesar is very interesting to me.)
  
  Answer:-In real life or in the play?
  
  In real life, Caesar was killed on March 15th, 44 BC. Just the day it happened to go down, is all. Could have been any other day, just happened to be that one.
  In the play, Shakespeare was telling (what we know today as) "historical fiction" in 1599 AD - 1,643 years afterward. This, of course, is like when you watch a movie that says "Based On A True Story."
  
  The key word there is "Based," you see. Shakespeare was a storyteller first, and needed to keep his audiences captivated. So, since just telling a straight biographical accounting of Caesar's last days would put many people to sleep, he spiced it up quite a bit. So he tosses in soothsayers, subplots, dialogue that no one could possibly know from historical texts, the famous "Et tu, Brute? Then fall Caesar" line, and so on.
  
  In short: The date only matters in the play, and only because this 'Soothsayer' said so. It was to keep the audience wrapped up and entertained. ;-)