| HERODTHEGREAT | Client king of Judea in the first century BC (5,3,5) |
| HEROD | King of Judea in the time of Jesus (5) |
| BARCELONA | Regional capital in north-east Spain (pop 1.6 million), founded by the Romans in the first century BC (9) |
| NIJMEGEN | Dutch city (pop 170,000), founded as a Roman military camp in the first century BC (8) |
| CINDERELLA | Which fairytale was first recorded by the Greek historian Strabo in the 1st Century BC? (10) |
| CATULLUS | Poet of the 1st century BC (8) |
| AESOP | First century BC Greek author of fables in which animals are given human characters and used to satirise human failings |
| LEIBNITZ | Town in the Austrian state of Styria, close to the Roman municipium of Flavia Solva founded in the first century AD (8) |
| TUSCANY | Region of Italy conquered by the neighbouring Romans in the first century BCE (7) |
| LUDUS | The ___ Magnus ('great gladiatorial school') in Rome, built by Domitian in the first century AD (5) |
| EXETER | Devon city, founded by the Romans as Isca in the first century AD (6) |
| CONVERSELY | On the other hand, some poetry appears in the first century only (10) |
| FLORENCE | It was founded as a Roman military colony about the 1st century BCE. It is the capital of Tuscany. In The Taming of the Shrew (act 1, scene 1), Lucentio says, "A merchant of great traffic through the |
| HILLEL | A Jewish teacher who died early in the first century AD (6) |
| ROME | HBO series set in the first century B.C. |
| IMPERIAL | Like Rome starting in the first century B.C. |
| PILATEBLOOMER | Flower of Judea? |
| ESSENES | Members of the ancient Jewish sect, flourishing in Palestine from the second century BC to the first century AD (7) |
| HIPPO | Supposedly historical Greek woman mentioned in the 1st century AD as an example of chastity (5) |
| TORSO | 1st century BC statue in the Vatican Museums, the Belvedere ... |
