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Isthmian games (ĭs`mēən), athletic events organized c.581 B.C. They were held at Corinth in the spring of the first and third years of the Olympiad Olympiad, unit of a chronological era of ancient Greece, a four-year period, each one beginning with the Olympic games . Timaeus (c.356–c.260 B.C.) of Sicily was the first to use, as a check on chronology, the list of victors kept in the gymnasium at Olympia. ..... Click the link for more information. , and they honored Palaemon as well as Poseidon. The contests were generally like the Olympic games Olympic games, premier athletic meeting of ancient Greece, and, in modern times, series of international sports contests. The Olympics of Ancient GreeceAlthough records cannot verify games earlier than 776 B.C. ..... Click the link for more information. , but they were conducted on a smaller scale; the many added amusements and the convenient journey from Athens made the Isthmian games popular. The victor's prize was a crown of wild celery, but after Corinth was destroyed (146 B.C.) by the Romans and restored (44 B.C.) by Julius Caesar, the Isthmian games were reestablished for a time with a crown of fir as the victor's prize. Isthmian GamesIn ancient Greece, a festival of athletic and musical competitions in honor of the sea god Poseidon. It was held in the spring of the second and fourth years of each Olympiad at Poseidon's legendary sanctuary on the Isthmus of Corinth. It died out when Christianity became dominant in the 4th century AD. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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At Olympia he was awarded the main prize for the chariot race (despite failing to finish), and during the Isthmian games in Corinth, on the eve of his departure, he stood in the middle of the stadium and presented the whole province with its freedom, and conferred Roman citizenship as well as large cash rewards upon the judges (Suetonius, Nero 24). |
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