The Day They Tore Ole Julius Down…
- Ides had real meaning only in the Roman Calendar, which had just been displaced by the Julian Calendar. However, the term “Ides” was still used in a vernacular sense for centuries afterwards to denote the middle of the month.
- 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.[3]
- 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.
