Isthmian Games

American  

noun

1. one of the great national festivals of ancient Greece, held every two years on the Isthmus of Corinth.

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Isthmian Games British  

noun

1. a Panhellenic festival celebrated every other year in ancient Corinth

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Etymology

Origin of Isthmian Games

First recorded in 1595–1605

Example Sentences

I knew that a young Plato had competed as a wrestler at the Isthmian Games in the early fifth century B.C.

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2016

Flaminus restoring liberty to Greece at the Isthmian Games.

From The Comic History of Rome by Becket, Gilbert Abbott ?

Another feature of the Olympian and Isthmian Games was the Pancratium, a contest calling for all the powers of the combatant.

From The Comic History of Rome by Becket, Gilbert Abbott ?

Isthmian Games, one of the four Pan-Hellenic festivals; they were periodically celebrated in honour of Poseidon or Neptune at the isthmus of Corinth, in Greece, whence the name.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

And to the Concourse of the Isthmian Games He, by his Herald's voice, aloud proclaims 1815.

From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) by Wordsworth, William