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

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Isthmian Games

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

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 P. Austin Nuttall

Flaminus restoring liberty to Greece at the Isthmian Games.

From The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott ? Becket

Declaration of Grecian independence at the Isthmian Games 109 191-190.

From A Smaller History of Rome by Sir William Smith

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 Gilbert Abbott ? Becket