--- description: The 15th of March isn't filled with doom. It's just another day. title: Beware the Ides of March! image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec81f7d1ded3c0ef/6986858e810bbb4f04c907eb/tout12805.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Beware the Ides of March by [Harry Swartout](/author/harry-swartout/) ## Harry Swartout Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 14, 2014 10:06 PM CUT  The Ides got Ceasar and they can get you too. The Ides got Ceasar and they can get you too. by [Harry Swartout](/author/harry-swartout/) ## Harry Swartout Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 14, 2014 10:06 PM CUT The 15th is the Ides of March, and you know what that means. You don’t? Oh. It wasn’t good for Julius Caesar — he got stabbed 23 times by his trusted friends on this day in 44 B.C. Fast forward a few thousand years and Ryan Gosling gets fired from George Clooney’s presidential campaign in the political drama _The Ides of March._ Even Homer Simpson is warned of his downfall on the Ides of March after being the Chosen One of the Stonecutters club. The Ides of March have a doom-filled reputation, but every month has its Ides. Let TIME be your soothsayer and explain exactly why you should, or shouldn’t, beware. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/25777/beware-the-ides-of-march/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/25777/beware-the-ides-of-march/"},"headline":"Beware the Ides of March","datePublished":"2014-03-14T22:06:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:49.988Z","description":"The 15th of March isn't filled with doom. It's just another day.","url":"https://time.com/25777/beware-the-ides-of-march/","keywords":["Newsfeed","The Simpsons"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec81f7d1ded3c0ef/6986858e810bbb4f04c907eb/tout12805.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Harry Swartout","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/harry-swartout/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec81f7d1ded3c0ef/6986858e810bbb4f04c907eb/tout12805.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Beware the Ides of March!","caption":"The Ides got Ceasar and they can get you too.","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/25777/beware-the-ides-of-march/","name":"Beware the Ides of March"}}]}] ```