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    Isthmian games

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    the Isthmian games · games in honour of Poseidon · games of the Isthmus · the games

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    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    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.
    book 1

    IsthmeanClassical · Greek

    The Panhellenic athletic festival held at the Isthmus of Corinth in honor of Poseidon, at which all the honorees celebrated in this window won their crowns.

    Honor him, who won the garland of wild Dorian celery in the Isthmian valley;
    chapter 8
    As a recompense for glorious deeds, it is right to celebrate a noble man, and it is right to exalt him in victory-songs with the gentle Graces.
    chapter 3
    first in Nemea, Zeus, in your honor they received the choicest of garlands, and now in honor of the lord of the Isthmus and the fifty Nereids, for the victory of the youngest son, Phylacidas.
    chapter 6

    NemeanClassical · Greek

    The biennial athletic festival sacred to Poseidon at the Isthmus, referenced as a venue of family victories.

    And the bridge of the untiring sea honored Creontidas in the biennial festival of those who live around, when bulls are slain in the sacred precinct of Poseidon.
    chapter 6
    And if the life that guides him straight along the path of his fathers has given him as an adornment to great Athens, it must be that the son of Timonous will often reap the finest bloom of the Isthmian games, and be victorious in the Pythian contests.
    chapter 2

    HellenicaClassical · Greek

    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.
    chapter 4
    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.
    chapter 4