Isthmian games
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games in honour of Poseidon · the Isthmian games · the games
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Stromata
The Isthmian games, founded by Glaucus in honor of Melicertes, dated within the closing chronological sequence.
From this to the expedition of Perseus, when Glaucus too established the Isthmian games in honour of Melicertes, fifteen years.
Hellenica
Festival contests and sacrifices in honor of Poseidon, conducted in rivalry by Argives and Corinthian exiles.
for it was the month during which the Isthmian games are celebrated, and the Argives chanced at the time to be offering the sacrifice there to Poseidon, as though Argos were Corinth.
Agesilaus, however, did not pursue them, even though he saw them, but encamping in the sacred precinct offered sacrifice himself to the god and waited until the Corinthian exiles had conducted the sacrifice and the games in honour of Poseidon.