Dad's birthday crossword 2022

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Across
  1. 6. Sixth century Athenian lawgiver (5)
  2. 10. The Cynic (8)
  3. 12. See XX down
  4. 15. Last fortress to hold out following the fall of Jerusalem following a six-month siege by Flavius Silva in AD 74 (6)
  5. 16. Prophet who defended the worship of God against Baal, introduced by Ahab and Jezebel (6)
  6. 17. Nymph who kept Odysseus on Ogygia for seven years (7)
  7. 20. Optimate, defeated for the consulship by the combined efforts of Crassus and Pompey. Surrendered to Caesar following the siege at Corfinium, who embarrassed him with his clemency (11)
  8. 21. Sulla cruelly divorced her for sterility (5)
  9. 22. Royal headband popular with the Hellenistic kings, following Alexander (6)
  10. 25. Greek inventor with mixed results, including a wooden cow, wings and a labyrinth (8)
  11. 26. Aurelia’s father (5)
  12. 29. His death in AD 4 led to the adoption of Tiberius (5, 6)
  13. 32. Tribune and friend of Saturninus who worked together to do something which is still opaque (7)
  14. 33. He blamed his exile in AD 8 on ‘a poem and a mistake’ (4)
  15. 34. Agamemnon and Clytemnestra’s son (7)
  16. 35. He was punished to roll a boulder up a hill only for it to roll back down, for eternity (8)
Down
  1. 1. For example, Marius and Cicero (Latin term) (4,4)
  2. 2. Potsherds used in the decision whether to banish someone or not in classical Athens (plural) (7)
  3. 3. Province governed by Cicero’s brother (4)
  4. 4. Tried to betray Jugurtha to Metellus but was discovered and killed (8)
  5. 5. Female followers of Dionysus, famously described by Euripides’ Bacchae (7)
  6. 7. Son of Cyrus the Great (8)
  7. 8. Milo killed Clodius here (8)
  8. 9. Son of XX down and famously murdered and subsequently deleted from official portraiture by his brother Caracalla (4)
  9. 11. Rufus returned here to spend his exile/retirement, quite happily (6)
  10. 13. Cleopatra and Antony’s daughter (6)
  11. 14. Raised floor heated from below by a furnace, perfected by the Romans (9)
  12. 18. Governed the Persian empire in the name of the king, acting as administrator and collecting taxes (6)
  13. 19. Place of Cato’s suicide in 46 BC (5)
  14. 23. Name of the cylindrical stone blocks which make up a column (5)
  15. 24. Greek name for the fates (6)
  16. 27. The father of tragedy. Works include The Persians, The Suppliants and The Oresteia (9)
  17. 28. Reputed to have said ‘I would rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one’ (4, 3, 5)
  18. 30. Both the division of Romans and a meeting place (5)
  19. 31. Ultimately won the Year of the Five Emperors and started a dynasty lasting 42 years (9, 7)