Tag ides of march

March 15, 2013
in Business, Current Affairs, Economics, History, Social Science

Mutiny and Its Bounty

March 15, 2013
in Business, Current Affairs, Economics, History, Social Science

Follow @ProfPJM The Ides of March commemorates one of history’s most famous mutinies: the murder of Julius Caesar at the Roman Senate in 44 B.C. Turning against established leadership is thoroughly covered in Mutiny and Its Bounty: Leadership Lessons from the Age of Discovery, in which authors Patrick J. Murphy and

October 6, 2011
in Ancient History, Humanities, Literature, Medieval & Renaissance History

Garry Wills on the Ides of March, Rhetorically Speaking

October 6, 2011
in Ancient History, Humanities, Literature, Medieval & Renaissance History

The Ides of March, George Clooney’s latest directorial turn, stars Ryan Gosling as a campaign manager in a hotly contested Democratic primary that evokes both recent and ancient history. The film, adapted from a 2008 play by the name of Farragut North, plays on memories of the past two presidential