This decades-long war is the backdrop of this video game. 
What is the Peloponnesian War?
Though his name isn't Carmen, this W&L faculty member is known for laying down a jazz tune.
Who is Caleb Dance?
Ichthyophagoi.
What are fish-eaters?
By solving this puzzle, Alexander the Great earned the right to rule all of Asia.
What is the Gordian Knot?
If you found "Follow Me!" written in the dirt throughout ancient Athens, it would lead you here.
This actor's strawberry blond hair might be the most Homerically accurate part of the movie Troy.
Who is Brad Pitt?
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This professor had a childhood persona, "Jake," who was extremely talented at athletics.
Who is Lily van Diepen?
Largiloquus.
What is "talkative", or an adjective describing many of these cards?
Pentheus and his mom, Medea and her sons; this Greek playwright loves dysfunctional families.
Who is Euripides?
Julius Caesar reportedly ate the last of this plant.
What is silphium?
This is an important setting for the movie 300, deriving its name from the sulfuric springs nearby.
What is Thermopolyae?
Given their knowledge of kottabos, it's not surprising that this faculty member went to bartending school.
Who is Michael Laughy?
"Βρεκεκεκὲξ κοὰξ κοάξ"
What do frogs say?
Bonus if you croaked!
Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Callisto, and the Pleiades all have one thing in common.
Who are people turned into constellations?

This Roman emperor had a grand battle against... the English Channel?
Who is Caligula?
Bonus opportunity: What does his name mean?
Maximus Decimus Meridius once said, "What we do in life echoes in eternity.” It's fitting that he fought alongside this Roman emperor, who is immortalized in his famous writings.
Who is Marcus Aurelius?
This faculty member felt right at home in the big city, dancing at the Kennedy Center with the New York City Ballet.
Who is Rebecca Benefiel?
Apocolocyntosis, or something that might have happened to the emperor Claudius.
What is "pumpkinification?"
Who is Tiresias?
What is 193 CE?
Who is Philoctetes?
Named after the first king of Rome, this friendly face loves to hang out in Tucker Hall.
Who is Numa?

Subductisupercilicarptor. Surely that's not really a word?
What is a critical eyebrow-raiser?
Laevius, from subdūcō (“I raise”) + supercilium (“eyebrow”) + carptor (“a criticizer”). For real.
The local Lycian peasants were turned into this animal for restricting Leto from drinking from a spring.
What are frogs?
Roll the dice with this bovine body part.
What are knucklebones?
