| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | SWEDISH WRITERS $400: In "Return to Ithaca", Nobel Prize winner Eyvind Johnson retold this ancient epic & set it in the 20th century The Odyssey |
| #7397, aired 2016-11-08 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $400: Even the author of the book "Why" this Trojan War poet "Matters" says to think of him as a culture, not a person Homer |
| #7397, aired 2016-11-08 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $800: Socrates speaks in his own defense in this Plato work, & despite the title he's not really sorry Apology (or Apologia) |
| #7397, aired 2016-11-08 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $1200: The wedding songs of this lyric poet known as the "tenth Muse" were likely written for the weddings of her pupils Sappho |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $400: In his History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides wrote that history does this... does this repeats itself |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $800: "Poetics" by this founder of the Lyceum has been called the single most influential work in all of literary criticism Aristotle |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $1200: The playwright Menander wrote, "Marriage, if one will face the truth, is... a necessary" this evil |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $1600: He argued in "The Republic" that the state had 3 parts: the rulers, the soldiers & the workers Plato |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $2,000 (Daily Double): The tune of "The Star-Spangled Banner" came from a drinking song about this lyric poet Anacreon |
| #5252, aired 2007-06-12 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $400: He dedicated his "Parallel Lives" to Sosius Senecio, a friend of the emperor Plutarch |
| #5252, aired 2007-06-12 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $800: Aristophanes' style is called "old" this; Menander's, less high-spirited, is "new "this comedy |
| #5252, aired 2007-06-12 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $1200: He wrote more than 120 plays, but only 7 complete ones survive, including "Oedipus Rex" & "Oedipus at Colonus" Sophocles |
| #5252, aired 2007-06-12 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $1600: Only one complete poem, 28 lines in length, remains from the poetry of this lyric poet from Lesbos Sappho |
| #5252, aired 2007-06-12 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $2000: The U.S. Post Office can thank this "father of history" for writing "neither snow nor rain", etc. Herodotus |
| #3839, aired 2001-04-19 | OLD HAT $100: It's the ancient empire whose forces wore hats like the one seen here Roman Empire |
| #3221, aired 1998-09-14 | ANTONYMS $800: Adjectives used to tell your ancient Pliny writers apart "Elder" & "Younger" |
| #2971, aired 1997-06-30 | ANCIENT HISTORY $600: This war dated to the 12th century B.C. has inspired writers from Homer to the present Trojan War |
| #1918, aired 1992-12-30 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $600: Ancient writers called this militaristic Greek state Lacedaemon Sparta |
| #1461, aired 1990-12-31 | SEVEN WONDERS $600: Ancient writers described them as a series of terraces rising along the Euphrates River the Hanging Gardens of Babylon |
