| HERODOTUS | Greek historian of the 5th-century BC known as The Father of History |
| OCTAVIA | Sister of the Roman emperor Augustus and wife of Mark Antony (69- 11 BC), known as ' the Younger' (7) |
| ANACREON | Greek lyric poet of the 6th century BC known for his drinking songs (8) |
| SOPHOCLES | Greek tragic dramatist of the 5th century BC to whom such innovations as the addition of a third actor and the use of painted scenery are attributed (9) |
| SUMMERSON | Sir John, one of the leading architectural historians of the 20th century (9) |
| DIONYSIUS | ---------of Halicarnassus, Greek historian and rhetorician, the author of a history of Rome (9) |
| PARTHENON | Temple of Athena built on the acropolis at Athens in the 5th century BC (9) |
| DAVIDHUME | Scottish empiricist philosopher, economist and historian of the 18th Century (5,4) |
| TARRAGONA | Port city in north-east Spain (pop about 130,000) founded in the 5th century BC (9) |
| PHIDIAS | Athenian sculptor of the 5th century BC whose statue of Zeus at Olympia (c. 430 BC) was one of the Seven Wonders of the World (7) |
| MALACHI | Book Of ---, part of the Old Testament attributed to a Hebrew prophet of the 5th Century BC (7) |
| CORIOLANUS | Legendary Roman general of the 5th Century BC, the inspiration for a Shakespeare tragedy of the same name (10) |
| ELIMIDATE | Competitor of "The 5th Wheel," in reality TV |
| EZRA | Jewish priest of the 5th century BC after whom a book of the Old Testament is named |
| XENOPHOBE | Be replacing Greek historian finally - a kind of racist? |
| IKTINOS | Athenian architect of the 5th century BC who co-designed the Parthenon with Callicrates and the sculptor Phidias (7) |
| TROJANWAR | Card game for Greek historians? |
| ARAMAIC | Common language of the 5th-century BC Persian empire |
| DARIUS | ____ the Great, Persian king of the fifth century BC (6) |
| ELTON | Sir Geoffrey ___, a major 20th century historian of the Tudor period (5) |
