Compare the Word Counts of Famous Fictional Works With This Handy Graphic. 6 myths about the Ides of March and killing Caesar. This is what most of us know about the death of Julius Caesar, half-remembered from movies and plays: Some soothsayer said, "Beware the Ides of March. " A few idealistic Romans decided to win back Rome for the people.Caesar got stabbed by Brutus with a big sword, said "Et tu, Brute?
" and died nobly. All of that is wrong. In major and minor ways, a lot of us misunderstand the death of Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 BC. That's why I talked to Barry Strauss, a Cornell classics and history professor. He's the author of The Death of Caesar, a new book that chronicles one of history's most infamous assassinations and dispels a lot of half-remembered myths. A lot of those myths come from Shakespeare, who relied exclusively on Plutarch to paint his picture of Rome. Myth 1: A soothsayer told Caesar, "Beware the Ides of March" An illustration of the soothsayer from an edition of Shakespeare's play.
The Ides of March comes from the ides, a term the Romans used to note the middle of a month. The National Book Awards Longlist: Young People’s Literature - The New Yorker. This week, The New Yorker will be announcing the longlists for this year’s National Book Awards. Today, we present the ten contenders in the category of Young People’s Literature.
Check back tomorrow for Poetry. Rae Carson’s “Walk on Earth a Stranger” is about a young woman with the ability to sense the presence of gold. Laura Ruby’s “Bone Gap” is a magical-realist story of a mysterious kidnapping in a Midwestern town. The remarkably wide-ranging list contenders for this year’s National Book Award for Young People’s Literature also includes nonfiction works about the Siege of Leningrad and the Vietnam War, as well as novels about grief, sexuality, and mental illness. Becky Albertalli, “Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda” Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins Children’s Books M. Ali Benjamin, “The Thing About Jellyfish” Little, Brown Books for Young Readers/Hachette Book Group Rae Carson, “Walk on Earth a Stranger” Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins Children’s Books.
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