| EURIPIDES | Greek dramatist (c 480 - c 406 BC) who wrote Medea (431 BC) (9) |
| AESCHYLUS | Greek dramatist (c. 525-456 BC) regarded as the father of tragedy; Seven Against Thebes, Prometheus Bound etc. (9) |
| MEDEA | 431 BC tragedy by Euripides (5) |
| SALAMIS | Largest Greek island in the Saronic Gulf; claimed to be the birthplace (c. 480 BC) of the dramatist Euripides (7) |
| MYTILENE | Naval battle of the Peloponnesian War fought in 406 BC (8) |
| WILLIAMCONGREVE | Dramatist, C. Marlowe, living rough close to theatre (7,8) |
| ARISTOTLE | Greek philosopher (384 - 322 BC), who founded the Lyceum at Athens (9) |
| NESTORIUS | Patriarch of Constantinople from 428 to 431 (9) |
| SOPHOCLES | Greek dramatist who wrote "Oedipus Tyrannus" |
| EUMENIDES | Greek dramatist sheds tear for men observing Furies |
| TROYOUNCE | 480 grains = 1 _____ |
| SOLON | Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and elegiac poet, c. 638 BC-558 BC, who sought to legislate against political, economic and moral decline in Athens |
| EPICURUS | Greek philosopher born in 341 BC who authored treatise On Nature (8) |
| PHIDIAS | Greek sculptor of the 5th century BC who directed the carving of the Elgin Marbles (7) |
| VANDALS | Germanic people who invaded and devastated Gaul from 406 to 409 and sacked Rome in 455 (7) |
| HADLEE | Sir Richard ......, bowler who took 431 wickets for New Zealand in Test cricket (6) |
| RICHARDHADLEE | New Zealand cricketer who took 431 Test wickets before retiring in 1990 (7,6) |
| AMIDSUMMERNIGHTSDREAM | Play about love and heartbreak in ancient Greece [1605, 431 B.C.] |
| PELOPONNESIAN | The War was a conflict between Athens and Sparta that lasted from 431-404 BC (13) |
| ASOKA | Emperor of India c. 269-232 BC who converted to Buddhism and elevated it to the official state religion (5) |
