Okla-homey
3/15/2010, 06:05 AM
Mar 15, 0045: Julius Caesar is stabbed
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"Beware the Ides of March," the soothsayer urges Julius Caesar in Shakespeare's Tragedy of Julius Caesar (act I, scene ii). 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.
Despite the forewarning, 1,965 years ago today, Caesar is stabbed in the back by his friend Marcus Brutus. Caesar falls and utters his famous last words, "Et tu, Brute?" (And you, Brutus?)
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Julius Caesar
Shakespeare's source for the play was Thomas North's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, which detailed the murder of Caesar in 44 B.C.
Caesar's friends and associates feared his growing power and his recent self-comparison to Alexander the Great and felt he must die for the good of Rome. North's work translated a French version of Plutarch, which itself had been translated from Latin. Shakespeare's version was written about 1599 and performed at the newly built Globe Theater.
The Temple Hill Association in New Windsor, NY holds an annual dinner in honor of the Ides of March because it is also the day that General George Washington quelled a mutiny of his Officers in 1783 at his headquarters at Newburgh, NY.
The "Newburgh Conspiracy" involved Continental Army officers who were exasperated and disgusted with Congress for its apparent inability to pass promised appropriations bills to pay them. There had been talk of a coup d'etat and setting-up Washington as king of America.
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Washington, in a poignant speech, convinced them not to sully their honor or historical legacy by taking any direct action against Congress, which, would surely eventually do the right thing by them.
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"Beware the Ides of March," the soothsayer urges Julius Caesar in Shakespeare's Tragedy of Julius Caesar (act I, scene ii). 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.
Despite the forewarning, 1,965 years ago today, Caesar is stabbed in the back by his friend Marcus Brutus. Caesar falls and utters his famous last words, "Et tu, Brute?" (And you, Brutus?)
http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/363/ca3caesar.jpg
Julius Caesar
Shakespeare's source for the play was Thomas North's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, which detailed the murder of Caesar in 44 B.C.
Caesar's friends and associates feared his growing power and his recent self-comparison to Alexander the Great and felt he must die for the good of Rome. North's work translated a French version of Plutarch, which itself had been translated from Latin. Shakespeare's version was written about 1599 and performed at the newly built Globe Theater.
The Temple Hill Association in New Windsor, NY holds an annual dinner in honor of the Ides of March because it is also the day that General George Washington quelled a mutiny of his Officers in 1783 at his headquarters at Newburgh, NY.
The "Newburgh Conspiracy" involved Continental Army officers who were exasperated and disgusted with Congress for its apparent inability to pass promised appropriations bills to pay them. There had been talk of a coup d'etat and setting-up Washington as king of America.
http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/6047/caus25296766249cdab72b0.jpg
Washington, in a poignant speech, convinced them not to sully their honor or historical legacy by taking any direct action against Congress, which, would surely eventually do the right thing by them.