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25.1 - Perletwo's Task: The Ides of March are Come
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nice task and i fit 2 of my audiobooks that I had signed up to listen to in to different options :)
Dee wrote: "nice task and i fit 2 of my audiobooks that I had signed up to listen to in to different options :)"Glad you like!
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March 15, as it's known in the Julian calendar, was a big day for the ancient Romans.
This is a two book task. Read one book from each of two of the following options.
REQUIRED: State which option you are using.
Option 1. The Ides of March were first and foremost a religious festival day for the Romans. It marked the Feast of Anna Perenna, a goddess of the circle of the year, which was also the Romans' end-of-year/new year feast day.
Read a book that is either #1 in the series or the last (most recently published) entry in a series (by first printing, not a paperback, re-issue etc). The book's Goodreads series main page must indicate this by series listing and/or publication date. The series entry must be a standalone work, not a contribution to a short story or novella collection.
Option 2: In keeping with its tradition of endings and beginnings, the Ides of March was also the Roman Empire's traditional deadline for settling debts.
Read a book from one of these Goodreads lists:
Revenge
Vengeance is Mine
Best Getting Even Books of All Time
Revenge in YA
REQUIRED: State the list you used and the page on which the book is listed.
Option 3: The Ides of March is probably best known today as the date of the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., marking the transition from Roman Republic to Roman Empire. The event was immortalized by William Shakespeare in his play Julius Caesar, in which he makes much of a prophecy given to Caesar by a seer described by the historian Plutarch. Plutarch has it that the seer warned Caesar to beware the Ides of March on the way to the Senate meeting that held his doom. "The Ides of March are come," he shot back, and was told, "But not gone."
Read a book by an author whose initials can be found in the phrase BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH. All name part initials must be present. Spaces determine names. Letters may only be used as often as they appear in the phrase. One qualifying author in a work by multiple contributors works.