Definition of Isthmian games

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

Generic synonyms: Agon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Isthmian Games

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Literary usage of Isthmian games

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Archaeologia Graeca: Or, The Antiquities of Greece by John Potter, George Dunbar (1818)
"Of the isthmian games. THE isthmian games were so called from the place where they were celebrated, viz. the Corinthian isthmus, a neck of land by which ..."

2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"isthmian games, one of the four great national festivals of Greece, ... Sisyphus accordingly established the isthmian games in honor of Neptune and ..."

3. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest, with by William Smith, George Washington Greene (1883)
"... and isthmian games. fl. The influence of these festivals. §8. Influence of the oracle of polio at Delphi. §9. Community of manners and character. §10. ..."

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