| CORIOLANUS | Legendary Roman general of the 5th Century BC, the inspiration for a Shakespeare tragedy of the same name (10) |
| SCIPIO | Slow march of the Grenadier Guards, taken from a Handel opera about a Roman general of the same name, who defeated Hannibal |
| LEAREQUATION | Formula for a Shakespeare tragedy? |
| ROPES | In 3500 BC, the Egyptians were using special tools to twist papyrus fibres and leather strips into what? (5) |
| BANQUO | Scottish general whose ghost haunts Macbeth in the William Shakespeare tragedy of that name |
| TITUSANDRONICUS | Shakespeare tragedy of gory revenge |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| MALACHI | Book Of ---, part of the Old Testament attributed to a Hebrew prophet of the 5th Century BC (7) |
| EZRA | Jewish priest of the 5th century BC after whom a book of the Old Testament is named |
| IKTINOS | Athenian architect of the 5th century BC who co-designed the Parthenon with Callicrates and the sculptor Phidias (7) |
| HERODOTUS | Greek historian of the 5th-century BC known as The Father of History |
| ARAMAIC | Common language of the 5th-century BC Persian empire |
| SUN | Chinese general and strategist credited with writing the 13-chapter military treatise The Art of War in the 5th century BC (3) |
| TZU | Chinese general and strategist credited with writing the 13-chapter military treatise The Art of War in the 5th century BC (3) |
| BEWITCHED | This 1960s sitcom was the inspiration for a 2005 Nicole Kidman movie of the same name. (9) |
| PARTHENON | Temple of Athena built on the acropolis at Athens in the 5th century BC (9) |
| DARIUS | ____ the Great, Persian king of the fifth century BC (6) |
| CORINTH | Ancient Greek city-state, an ally of Sparta in the 5th-century BC Peloponnesian War (7) |
| HEREIN | "And ___ lies the tragedy of the age: . . . that men know so little of men": W. E. B. Du Bois |
