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	Panhellenic Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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, wrestling, boxing, pankration, stadion and various other foot races, and the pentathlon (made up of wrestling, stadion, long jump, javelin throw, and discus throw).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Panhellenic_Games (327 words)

	Pythian Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This starting line at the Delphi stadium used for the Pythian Games at Delphi, Greece has a design representative of that of many ancient Greek stadiums: stones with two lines in which the athletes nudged their toes, and round holes in which posts could be erected to support the start signalling mechanism.
		The Pythian Games were one of the four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece, a forerunner of the modern Olympic Games, held every four years at the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi.
		The music and poetry competitions pre-dated the athletic portion of the games, and were said to have been started by Apollo after he killed Python and set up the oracle at Delphi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pythian_Games (261 words)

	MSN Encarta - Ancient Olympic Games
		Games, Olympic (ancient), 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 /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761576089 (465 words)

	XX. b. Olympic and Other Games. Vols. I & II: Stories of Gods and Heroes. Bulfinch, Thomas. 1913. Age of Fable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The first Olympiad is generally considered as corresponding with the year 776 B.C. The Pythian games were celebrated in the vicinity of Delphi, the Isthmian on the Corinthian isthmus, the Nemean at Nemea, a city of Argolis.
		The exercises in these games were of five sorts: running, leaping, wrestling, throwing the quoit, and hurling the javelin, or boxing.
		Thus these games furnished poets, musicians, and authors the best opportunities to present their productions to the public, and the fame of the victors was diffused far and wide.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/181/202.html (245 words)

	Pythian Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pythian Games were a great panhellenic festival which offered crowns made of leaves to the victors of events.
		Pythian Games, the crown was made from bay leaves (Fontenrose, "Cult of Apollo," 125).
		Games and its rich mythology, bears witness to a strong and unforgotten female presence in Greek history and culture.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /cl135/Students/Leslie_DesMarteau/delphi7.htm (432 words)

	The Ancient Olympic Games - Professor Bob Milns
		Unlike the modern Games, the ancient Olympics were always held at Olympia, near Pisa, near the western coast of the Peloponnese; and from early times they were under the control of the people of nearby Elis.
		Like the modern games, they were held at four yearly intervals, ie at the start of each fifth year from the preceding Games, and were always held in July or August, depending on the date of the second full moon after the summer solstice.
		Among modern track events absent from the annual Games were the 100m, relay races, hurdles and the marathon, whose first Olympic appearance was in 1896 at the first modern Olympics at Athens, where the race was appropriately won by a Greek.
	www.library.uq.edu.au /olympics/milns.html (1190 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).
		Poseidon was god of the sea, and the narrow neck of land that separated the Corinthian and Saronic Gulf was the ideal spot for a temple to Poseidon.
		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)

	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 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.
		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.
	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 (820 words)

	Q & A - Little-Horus.Org
		Olympic Games: The Greek athletic games, otherwise commonly recognized as the Panhellenic Games, were an integral part of Greek life.
		They were the Olympic Games, held at Olympia, the Pythian Games at Delphi, the Nemean Games at Nemea, and the Isthmian Games at Corinth.
		The Games, held every four years, were abolished in AD 393 by the Roman emperor Theodosius I. In 1887 the 24-year-old Pierre, baron de Coubertin, conceived the idea of reviving the Olympic Games and spent seven years preparing public opinion in France, England, and the United States to support his plan.
	www.horus.ics.org.eg /en/FunCorner/Q_ADetails.aspx?Q=8 (346 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)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 977 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bockh supposes that these two kinds of games had been connected at the Pythia from early times, but that afterwards the gymnastic games were neglected : but however this may be, it is certain that about 01.47 they did not exist at Delphi.
		48 the Delphians themselves had been the agonothetae at the Pythian games, but in the third year of this Olympiad, when after the Crissaean war the Amphictyons took the management under their care, they naturally became the agonothetae.
		As for the season sof the Pythian games, they were in all probability held in the spring, and most writers believe that it was in the month of Bysius, which is supposed to be the same as the Attic Mtmychion.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-dgra/0984.html (1007 words)

	Facts and Figures: The Greek World
		A funeral game was also given in honour to Achilles, but this had tragic consequences, when Ajax contested Odysseus for the armour of Achilles.
		The Nemean Games had actually started out as a funeral games to the infant Opheltes, before it became a major event that was held every five years in Nemea.
		The Pythian Games was held every four years in Delphi, to commemorate Apollo his victory in slaying the giant serpent or dragon, Python, which guarded the oracle.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/greekworld.html (4169 words)

	Delphi - Pathways to Ancient Myth
		The Pythian games, second only to the Olympic games, provided a cultural link between the various Greek city states.
		Originally, the games were held every eight years and did not include athletics but only music and poetry.
		The games were held for eight days and the victor received a wreath of laurel (the tree sacred to Apollo) and was allowed to place a portrait statue of himself within Apollo's sanctuary.
	www.calvin.edu /academic/clas/pathways/delphi/dpyt.htm (119 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)

	139
		Numerous replies were received from the Greek cities and leagues (see 128 for those from the kings) accepting the games and recognizing the city as sacred and inviolable.
		The present text is what remains of the city's history of the venture, inscribed sometime after the events themselves (the specification of the men's pankration, if the restoration is correct, means a date of 200 or after, as the boys' pankration was instituted in that year).
		Pythian games, Olympiad: The Pythian games were held in 222, the Olympic in 220.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/classics/bagnall/3995/readings/b-d2-9.htm (6152 words)

	Olympia
		The origin of these games was ascribed to Pelops, the son of Tantalus, whose grave could be seen in the sacred precinct of Olympia, the Altis, but, after the arrival of the Dorians, it was reassigned to their favorite hero, Heracles (Pindar's Xth Olympian Ode, str.2, sq.
		The games continued to be held on a regular basis until 393 A. D., when all pagan festivals were banned by a decree of emperor Theodosius.
		The Olympic games were held in honor of Zeus every four years in the summer, between July and September depending on the year, under the leadership of the people of the nearby city of Elis.
	www.plato-dialogues.org /tools/loc/olympia.htm (1121 words)

	Delphi
		Every fourth year laurel was taken from Tempe to Delphi, which became the prize in the form of a crown worn by the victors of the Pythian Games.
		Python was the protector of Gaia and the sanctuary of Pytho, the young god was given the name "Pythian Apollo"(part of Apollo's cult was a sacred serpent), but only after serving nine years to king Admetus as a cowherd, to make amends for his deadly deed.
		The games were reorganized, which took place in the third year of each Olympiad.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/d/delphi.html (1074 words)

	Pindar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		These are divided as Olympian, Pythian, Isthmian, or Nemean—the games in which the victories he celebrated were held; the epinicia number 44 odes in all.
		No doubt Pindar visited the Panhellenic festivals, at Delphi (where the Pythian games were held) and Olympia in particular, to absorb the atmosphere of the games and the victories he celebrated.
		Pindar was born at the time of the Pythian festival, and from his youth he had a close connection with the Pythian priesthood, which served the oracular shrine of Apollo at Delphi.
	www.omhros.gr /Kat/History/Greek/Pt/Pindar.htm (2128 words)

	OLYMPIC GAMES
		In the 8th Pythian Games a guitar contest was added in the programme while during the Hellenistic period the encomium and the pantomime were included.
		In around 582 BC, after the First Sacred War, Delphi was liberated from the control of the city-state of Kirra by the Amphyctiony (twelve cities that were in the neighborhood of Demeter's sanctuary in Thermopylae), which then reorganized the festival and added athletic contests to the programme of the festival.
		The Pythian games took place every four years and a wreath of laurel was given to the winners.
	www.fhw.gr /olympics/ancient/en/otherg_pithia.html (258 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 Pythian Games - A Writing Challenge
		Here at Soul Food you can train for the Pythian Games by working out in the Solarium and Gymnasium and by making full use of the team bloggers that are associated with the site.
		Perhaps it was Polymnia who crowned the Poet Laureate at the Pythian Games which took place at Delphi every four years.
		It was after this that Apollo instituted the Pythian games, which took place at Delphi and involved a reenactment of the slaying of the Python.
	www.dailywriting.net /PythianGames.htm (1507 words)

	Carmen & Jim's Greece Trip - Delphi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		These games were held every four years and were very similar in nature to the Olympic games.
		The Olympics originated as games that were held in honor and under the truce of the god Zeus.
		The Pythian Games were held in honor of the god Apollo and at the time they were just as important as the Olympics.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/j/x/jxf17/page9.html (864 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.01.20 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The narrative presented in Games and Sanctuaries is aimed at the general public, but the inclusion of more than 600 high-quality images means that specialists will find it to be a rich source of visual evidence for ancient Greek athletics.
		370 as "from the games at Athens" and in the caption to fig.
		The Olympiad held in 364 BCE was the 104th iteration of the games, not the 105th (p.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-01-20.html (2173 words)

	Ancient Olympic games in Greece
		Every four years the great international Olympic games, which were revived in 1896, serve as a reminder of an important side of Greek life.
		Before the games, messengers would be sent to all parts of Greece to proclaim a "sacred truce" that halted all war for approximately three months.
		Unlike the ancient games, the modern Olympic games have been cancelled three times due to war in 1916, 1940 and 1944.
	scsc.essortment.com /athleticshistor_rjzj.htm (779 words)

	History of the World: Pythian Games At Delphi: Part I.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pythian Games At Delphi: Part I. «Read the Full Article, get a FREE TRIAL for instant access»
		Among the leading features of Greek life, especially those belonging to its religious customs and observances none are more characteristic, and none possess a more attractive interest for the modern reader and student than the peculiar festivals which it was their practice to hold.
		The four great national festivals or games were: The Olympic, held every four years, in honor of Zeus, on the banks of the Alpheus, in Elis; the Pythian, celebrated once in four years, in honor of Apollo, at Delphi; the Isthmian, held every two years, at...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:28031756&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (190 words)

	epinikia
		Pindar was, in other words, a poet for hire; he was commissioned by the family or city of victors in the games to compose and arrange for the performance of an epinikion, a choral ode, in praise of the athlete, his victory, and, as we shall see, his family and his city.
		If the trip to the games and the victory isolates the victor in a sense from his community, the ode reintegrates him into: house (oikos), the aristocracy, and the city (polis).
		Pythian 6 not arranged in triads, but in single strophes, all of which are metrically equivalent.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /classic/wilson/gold/epinikia.htm (2054 words)

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