num_pages: 320
description: 'The Ides of March', first published in 1948, is a brilliant epistolary novel set in Julius Caesar's Rome. Thornton Wilder called it "a fantasia on certain events and persons of the last days of the Roman republic." Through vividly imagined letters and documents, Wilder brings to life a dramatic period of world history and one of history's most magnetic, elusive personalities.In this inventive narrative, the Caesar of history becomes Caesar the human being. Wilder also resurrects the controversial figures surrounding Caesar - Cleopatra, Catullus, Cicero, and others. All Rome comes crowding through these pages - the Rome of villas and slums, beautiful women and brawling youths, spies and assassins.
language: French
title: Les ides de mars
titlecomplete: Les ides de mars
characters: Catullus (poet), Cleopatra, Clodia Metelli, Julius Caesar (Roman emperor)
genres: Classics, Historical, Ancient History, Italy, Fiction, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, American
ratings_count: 1848
places: Italy
publisher: Editions Gallimard