Writing Scoop: "Beware the Ides of March!"

March 15: "Beware the Ides of March!" This famous quotation is from "Julius Caesar," one of Shakespeare's Histories.  The Bard wrote about one of the most notorious assassinations of all time: that of Emperor Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 B.C.  In the play, Caesar, who is a returning hero from leading Rome to glory in creating the Roman Empire, is on his way to the Senate.  A lowly, blind Soothsayer stops Caesar and warns him of upcoming danger.  Caesar, filled with pride, ignores the admonition.  Therein lies the irony: the blind can "see" and the sighted cannot. Caesar then, a victim of his own vainglory, is  assassinated.  The moral is not so much to listen to prophets, wise though they be, but to put good sense before your own hype.

It is not necessary to "beware the Ides of March!"  It is only interesting to note what took place on this day and how the event was turned into a brilliant literary work and exactly why the quote lives on. 

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