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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-02T13:51:38.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Rome's Largo Argentina site to host historical re-enactment of Caesar's assassination.\n\nRome will mark the Ides of March and the assassination of Julius Caesar on Sunday 15 March with a historical re-enactment of that fateful day in 44 BC.\n\n\nThe event will be staged by the Gruppo Storico Romano in the archaeological area at Largo di Torre Argentina, which opened to visitors in 2023 following works financed by luxury jeweller Bvlgari.\n\n\nStarting at 16.00, this historical dramatic society will re-enact the senate meetings and conversations leading up to Caesar's murder, followed by a funeral procession to the Roman Forum.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe event, which is supported by the city of Rome, is open to the public and is free of charge, however a ticket for the Parco Archeologico del Colosseo is required to attend the re-enactment of Caesar's funeral in the Forum.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is the Ides of March?\nTraditionally marked by religious observances and festivals, the Ides of March was also used by Romans as a landmark deadline for settling debts.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe annual event fell on the 74th day in the Roman calendar, determined by the full moon, and corresponded to 15 March.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHowever the date took on a whole new significance in 44 BC when the assassination of Julius Caesar made the Ides of March a turning point in Roman history.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Death of Julius Caesar (1806) by Vincenzo Camuccini. \n\nImmensely popular with the people in Rome, Caesar was a successful military leader who expanded the republic to include parts of what are now Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium.\n\n\n\n\n\nCaesar, who had seized power from the Roman Republic and declared himself a dictator for life, was killed by a group of 60 conspirators led by his senator friends, Brutus and Cassius.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe assassination occurred during a meeting of the senate in the Curia Pompeia, within the larger Pompey’s Theatre complex in the Torre Argentina archaeological site, today also home to a cat sanctuary.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto Gruppo Storico Romano\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAccording to legend, a soothsayer had warned Caesar of his impending murder, immortalised by Shakespeare with the ominous phrase \"Beware the Ides of March\" from his play Julius Caesar.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCaesar is dead! Rome re-enacts the funeral procession of Julius Caesar who was stabbed to death on this day in 44 BC. #IdesOfMarch pic.twitter.com/BGY3eVxrA2\n— Wanted in Rome (@wantedinrome) March 15, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCaesar was said to have been stabbed 23 times and he was cremated in the Roman Forum.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe site is marked by the remains of the Temple of Divus Iulius, an altar located to the eastern side of the central Forum area.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGruppo Storico Romano at the Temple of Divus Iulius. Photo: Isabel Eve / Shutterstock.com.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCaesar's assassination would result in a long series of civil wars that ended in the demise of the Roman Republic and the birth of the Roman Empire.\n\n\n\n\n\nEventually it led to the rise of his grand-nephew and adopted heir Octavian, later known as Augustus, who became the first emperor of Rome in 27 BC.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt also saw the deification of Caesar 14 months after his murder.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo this day people still commemorate Caesar's death by leaving flowers inside the temple at the Roman Forum each year on 15 March.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCover photo Gruppo Storico Romano",
  "title": "Rome re-enacts the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March"
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