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Isthmian Games

noun
1.
The ancient Panhellenic games held biennially on the Isthmus of Corinth in the first and third years of each Olympiad.





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... he ventured on crossing again The scenes of our Isthmian Games— John caught him and collared him, giving him pain (I felt ...
— The Best Nonsense Verses • Various
... that the body of Melicertes was thrown on the Isthmus of Corinth where Sisyphus, his uncle, who reigned in that city, instituted the Isthmian games in his honor. For this fable we are indebted to the fertile invention of the Greeks, Melicertes being no other than the Melcarthus or the Hercules of Tyre, who, from having been drowned in the sea, was called a god of it, and from his ...
— Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology - For Classical Schools (2nd ed) • Charles K. Dillaway


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