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	Panhellenic Games
		The Games took place in a four-year cycle known as the Olympiad, which was one of the ways the Greeks measured time.
		The Olympic Games were used as a starting point, year one of the cycle; the Nemean and Isthmian Games were both held (in different months) in year two, followed by the Pythian Games in year three, and then the Nemean and Isthmian Games again in year four.
		The main events at each of the games were chariot racing, boxing, wrestling, boxing, pankration, stadion and various other foot races, and the pentathlon (made up of wrestling, stadion, long jump, javelin throw, and discus throw).
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/p/pa/panhellenic_games.shtml (319 words)

	THE CORINTHIA IN THE ROMAN PERIOD; The Isthmian Games and the sanctuary of Poseidon
		The Isthmian Games and the Sanctuary of Poseidon in the Early Empire
		Strabo's reference to the sanctuary of Isthmian Poseidon (8.6.22) has been the basis for putting the date of the return of the Isthmian Games to Corinth after his visit and after the composition of Book 8, because he implies that the games were not at that time being held at the sanctuary.
		The Caesarean games that were held at the same time as the Isthmian appear to have continued to be held in Corinth until at least the 2nd c.
	humanities.uchicago.edu /isthmia/publications/is-roman/is-games.html (5066 words)

	Isthmian Games - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Isthmian Games, festival of athletic competition held every four years on the Isthmus of Corinth in ancient Greece.
		THE CORINTHIA IN THE ROMAN PERIOD; The Isthmian Games and the...
		The Isthmian Games and the Sanctuary of Poseidon in the Early Empire.
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		As with the Nemean Games, the Isthmian Games were held both the year before and the year after the Olympic Games, while the Pythian Games were held in the third year of the Olympiad cycle.
		The games were said to have originated as funeral games for Melicertes (also known as Palaemon), instituted by Sisyphus, legendary founder and king of Corinth, who found the dead body and buried it on the Isthmus.
		The Games of 196 BC were used by Titus Quinctius Flamininus to proclaim the freedom of the Greek states from Macedonian rule.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Isthmian_Games (866 words)

	Ancient Olympic Games - MSN Encarta
		Ancient Olympic Games, most famous of the four great national festivals of the ancient Greeks, the other three being the Isthmian Games, the Pythian Games, and the Nemean Games (see Games, Ancient).
		The ancient Olympic Games were celebrated in the summer every four years in the sanctuary of the god Zeus at Olympia.
		Early in the year of the Games, envoys were sent throughout the Greek world to invite the city-states to join in paying tribute to Zeus.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576089/Ancient_Olympic_Games.html (485 words)

	Ancient Olympics
		Games were held as part of religious ceremonies in honor of deceased heroes, a concept displayed in the funeral games for Patroklos in Book 23 of Homer's epic poem, The Iliad.
		The games at Olympia were connected with both the funeral games of Oinomaos, established by Pelops, and a fertility cult involving any number of gods and goddesses who were worshipped at the site.
		In 586 BC, the Pythian Games were established at Delphi, followed by the Isthmian Games in 582 and the Nemean Games in 573.
	killeenroos.com /1/olympics.htm (1712 words)

	The Mediadrome - Poems of the Week: The Olympics
		The Olympic Games were held at Olympia (as one might suppose); the Pythian Games were held at Delphi (this name derives from Pytho, the serpent, who was worshipped as god of the Delphic oracle in early times before the introduction of the Olympic deities, after which they were held in honour of Apollo).
		The Isthmian Games were held in honour of Poseidon, and were said to have originated around 580 BCE to celebrate the death of the tyrant Kypselos.
		In the Olympics, the wreath was of wild olive; in the Pythian Games, the wreath was laurel; in the Isthmian Games, the wreath was wild parsley or pine; and in the Nemean Games the wreath was of wild parsley.
	www.themediadrome.com /content/articles/words_articles/poems_olympics.htm (2944 words)

	Olympic Games
		The Olympic Games were a religious event dedicated to the glory of Zeus, and to celebrate athletic prowess.
		When the Games were over, they went back to their battlefields and resumed the wars.
		Travelers to the Games were not molested by highwaymen if they were going to the Games, and politicians flocked there to do their politicking in the stimulating atmosphere.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/o/olympic_games.html (806 words)

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	Olympic Games
		Olympia, the site of the ancient Olympic Games, is in the western part of the Peloponnese which, according to Greek mythology, is the island of "Pelops", the founder of the Olympic Games.
		The Olympic Games were closely linked to the religious festivals of the cult of Zeus, but were not an integral part of a rite.
		In the Olympic Games, it was forbidden for women to be present and Kyniska broke with tradition, since, in the equestrian events, the victory wreath, or kotinos, was won by the owner, not the rider, of the horse.
	www.noc.by /eng/games/htdocs/1 (848 words)

	Melikertes-Palaimon, Hero of the Isthmian Games
		The paraphrase of the lines to be found in one of the versions of the Hypothesis (a) to the Isthmian Odes leaves little room for doubt that the ancient commentators took the verses to refer to the founding of the Isthmian Games.
		Therefore, since the Isthmian Games were founded as funeral games for Melikertes, the probability is high that Melikertes had a tomb-monument at the Isthmian sanctuary, where too he received heroic sacrifices.
		The games were held by a monument identified as the house of Amphitryon where, according to the scholiast, the bodies of the eight sons had been taken and presumably buried (61-73).
	humanities.uchicago.edu /orgs/isthmia/publications/hero/hero.html (2704 words)

	Ancient Greek Olympic Games
		The Contribution of Dimitris Vikelas to the Revival of the Olympic Games.
		He [Theseus] also founded games [at the Isthmus of Corinth] to rival those of Herakles; his ambition was that just as the Greeks at Herakles' insistence celebrated the Olympian Games in honor of Zeus, so through his own initiative they should celebrate the Isthmian Games in honor of his reputed father, Poseidon.
		The games which had previously been established at the Isthmus in honor of Melicertes were held a night and were organized more in the form of a religious rite than of a spectacle or a great public gathering.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Olympic.htm (2048 words)

	games
		The Olympic, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian games were esteemed as of great national importance, and the victors at any of these games of wrestling, racing, etc.
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	The Isthmian Games
		Melikertes was drowned and his body carried on the back of a dolphin to the Isthmus, where Sisyphos found him and at the funeral of the boy instituted the Isthmian Games.
		A swift stroke of the axe wielded by the officiating priest sent the consecrated animal to the ground, and as soon as his struggles ceased, the attendants heaved the body into the fiery pit where it was quickly consumed by the flames.
		The trainers, directors, and the athletes, prior to the contest had to swear on the Altar of Poseidon that they would perform their offices according to the rules and would use no unlawful means to obtain victory.
	www.ioa.leeds.ac.uk /1970s/70094.htm (1770 words)

	Classics Ireland
		The topic is not without interest because the Isthmian games, unlike the Olympic, Pythian, and Nemean games, appear to have been a happy blend of all three forms of amusement: athletic, artistic, and social.
		The Isthmian games are ranked by some modern scholars as second in importance after the Olympic, and by others in third place, after the Pythian.
		Flamininus proclaimed the liberty of Greece at the Isthmian Games, and in 67 a.d.
	www.ucd.ie /cai/classics-ireland/2001/jordan.html (6874 words)

	The First Olympics
		The Isthmian games were held every two years at Corinth in honor of Poseidon; the Nemean Games, at Nemea for Zeus; the Pythian games were staged every four years near Delphi to honor Apollo; and the Olympics were held every four years at Olympia in honor of Zeus.
		In the year of the games, Spondorophoroi, or messengers were sent to invite city-states throughout Greece to the games.
		Historians have speculated that the games in 776 BC were not the first games held, but the first organized games which served as a peace agreement between the city-states of Elis and Pisa.
	library.thinkquest.org /19317/htm/first.htm (807 words)

	The Ryman Football League
		Prior to the turn of the century, the only competitive games for amateur clubs in the South of England were various cup competitions.
		Bromley also returned to the Isthmian League, and even though there have been subsequent occasions when clubs playing records have been below that of the rest of the clubs in the league, it is unusual that a club is not re-elected at the Annual General Meeting.
		It was also agreed that with effect from 1982-83, the Isthmian League champions would be promoted to the Alliance Premier League and that the bottom two clubs in Division Two would, subject to facilities, be replaced by the top two Athenian League clubs.
	www.isthmian.co.uk /history.asp (2674 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: Accounts of the Hellenic Games, c. 470 BCE-175 CE
		From the time the Olympian games were revived continuously, prizes were first instituted for running, and Coroebus of Elis was the victor....And in the 14th Olympiad afterwards the double course was introduced, when Hypenus, a native of Pisa, won the wild olive crown, and Acanthus the second.
		But most games have a crown of palm as the prize, and everywhere the palm is put into the right hand of the victor.
		The games of the maidens too are traced back to ancient times; they say that, out of gratitude to Hera for her marriage with Pelops, Hippodameia assembled the Sixteen Women, and with them inaugurated the Heraea.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/greekgames.html (1526 words)

	Olympic Primer: Ancient Games
		These Games were special because they brought the Greek world together at a time when Greece was not a single state, but a series of city-states (politically and economically independent communities).
		This was the case for the Panhellenic Games, for which there are numerous stories attempting to explain their origin.
		They called for all wars to be halted before, during and after the Games in order to enable the athletes, as well as the spectators, to travel to and from the Games sites in total safety.
	www2.gvsu.edu /~bildnerj/wrt351/history1.htm (497 words)

	OSU Excavations at Isthmia
		In antiquity, the Isthmian sanctuary of Poseidon was established near the ancient road between Athens and Korinth, two of the largest and wealthiest cities in Classical Greek times.
		The Altar of Poseidon was destroyed, and the Isthmian Games were transferred to the control of Korinth's neighbor Sicyon.
		At that time, the temple and the facilities for the games were repaired, and in 67 AD the Emperor Nero took part in the panhellenic games.
	isthmia.osu.edu /sanctuar.html (1041 words)

	Barnes New Testament Notes \| Christian Classics Ethereal Library
		By the phrase, "know ye not," Paul intimates that those games to which he alludes, were well known to them, and that they must be familiar with their design, and with the manner in which they were conducted.
		The games to which the apostle alludes were celebrated with extraordinary pomp and splendour, every fourth year, on the Isthmus which joined the Peloponnesus to the main land, and on a part of which the city of Corinth stood.
		This was one of the principal exercises at the games.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/barnes/ntnotes.viii.ix.xxiv.html (1276 words)

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		The games were held every four years and records show that the games in 776 BC consisted of only one footrace held on one day.
		Although the games attracted participants from throughout the Classical Greek world and Magna Grecia (see map) the games themselves were not lengthened beyond one day until 472 BC when they were extended to four days and, later, to five.
		The Isthmian games were held in ancient Corinth and the Nemean Games were held in nearby Nemea (we bicycle through Nemea, Ancient Corinth and Olympia on our tour, Bicycling through Classical Greece - Athens to Olympia).
	gfs.westport.k12.ct.us /sswebquest/notes.htm (970 words)

	Archaeology Education
		The four panhellenic festivals -- the Olympic Games and Nemean Games in honor of the god Zeus, the Pythian Games in honor of Apollo, and the Isthmian Games in honor of Poseidon -- were perhaps the most popular events in Greek religious life (Figure 4.1).
		All four of the Panhellenic games have foundation myths, but none of them are as touching or as tragic as the story of Palaimon.
		The Pythian Games at Delphi were established to commemorate Apollo slaying the snake Python, a huge monster who lurked in the caverns on Mt. Parnassos.
	isthmia.osu.edu /arched/myth.html (1320 words)

	Olympic Games
		The Olympic Games called the Panhellenic Games were first held in Olympia around 775 BC.
		One myth says the games started when a cook named Koroibos, from the nearby city of Elis, won the stadion race, a 600 foot long race.
		In the ancient games the runway for the long jump was very short.
	library.thinkquest.org /CR0210200/ancient_greece/olympicgames.htm (692 words)

	Subject Matter
		The Pythian Games were sacred to Apollo, the Isthmian Games to Poseidon and the Nemean Games to Zeus.
		The Olympic Games, the largest amongst the Pan-Hellenic Games, were held in honor of Zeus Olympian, the ruler of the gods.
		At each game the competitor played for "a crown of olive at Olympia, a crown of pine at Isthmia, a crown of wild celery at Nemea, the laurel-berries sacred to Apollo at Delphi, and the oil of the olive at the Panathenaia" (Miller 75).
	www-scf.usc.edu /~alanis/grkathleticsex.htm (1418 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		All free male Greek citizens were entitled to participate in the ancient Olympic Games, regardless of their social status.
		Although the ancient Olympic Games did not allow female participation, the Herean Games, staged every four years to honour Hera, wife of Zeus, gave female athletes the chance to compete.
		In the Olympic Games, it was forbidden for women to be present and Kyniska broke with tradition, since, in the equestrian events, the victory wreath, or kotinos, was won by the owner, not the rider, of the horse.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/ancient/athletes_uk.asp (524 words)

	The Games We Play
		Their awareness is evidence that they were enmeshed in the surrounding culture, which was filled with indicators of the importance of games and competition in the ancient world.
		These games "were so well known in Palestine and throughout the Roman Empire in the time of Christ and the apostles that they cannot be passed over in silence."(13) Archaeological remains indicate stadiums of various types in many cities including Jerusalem, Jericho, Caesarea, Ephesus, Corinth, Rome, and Tarsus, the city of Paul's early life.
		Games can be seen and experienced in ways that correlate with Christian principles such as discipline, concentration, and perseverance.
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