On the Ides of March, at the Theatre of Pompey, Septimius was confronted by Aya at the arena while Caesar attended a meeting at the curia with the Roman Senators. After being mortally wounded by Aya, Septimius revealed to her the fate of the Order's Staff and that Caesar was their "Fa...
Nevertheless, the day on which the consuls took office varied during the Republican period: the consular year started on the Ides of March from the beginning of the Hannibalic war and on 1 January from 153 onward. Until the first century BCE, consuls were the chief commanders of the Roman...
warned Julius Caesar to “Beware the ides of March.” Caesar ignored the advice, only to be killed on that very day, the 15th of March. According to the ancient Roman calendar, the ides falls on the 15th day of March, May, July, and October, and on the 13th day of the other ...
warned Julius Caesar to “Beware the ides of March.” Caesar ignored the advice, only to be killed on that very day, the 15th of March. According to the ancient Roman calendar, the ides falls on the 15th day of March, May, July, and October, and on the 13th day of the other ...
I’ll do again the Tame the TBR Challenge. I’ve picked 16 books among the oldest on the TBR and here they are! Building Yacubianby Alaa El Aswani The Vatard Sistersby Huysmans Le roman naturaliste – antologieby Emile Zola Vanity of Duluozby Jack Kerouac ...
Roman religion The Daemon Prince: Some musings on Hermes-Mercury September 24, 2015 / 1 Comment The word ‘mercurial’, taken from the name of the Roman god Mercury and his eponymous liquid metal, generally means ‘volatile’ and ‘liable to change’. This descriptor is an apt expression...
2Murder: substanceand procedure in RomanlawOn theIdes of March, 44 BC,agroup of conspirators, all members of the sena-torial élite, cut downJulius Caesar in the Senate.⁵On the one hand, this dramaticepisode was“the final main effort on the part ofastill vital aristocratic traditionto ...
The Ides of March was the namefor a dateon the Roman calendar corresponding with our date of March 15. It was a fateful date, the chosen day for the assassination of Julius Caesar. Before Caesar went to the theater of Pompey to attend the Senate meeting, he had been given advice not ...
Mars was the Roman god of war and also an agricultural guardian, a combination characteristic of early Rome. He was second in importance only to Jupiter, and he was the most prominent of the military gods in the religion of the Roman army. Most of his festivals were held in March,...
According to later Roman authors commenting upon the substratum of Etrurian religious culture important at the heart of Republican era Roman religion, he was both a god of fire (Vitruvius 1stC, BC) and lightning (Servius, 4thC CE). The Etruscan haruspices or diviners were keen observers of...