Nemean Games
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Nemean games · Nemean races · the games of Nemea
in the texts
Nemean
The athletic festival held at Nemea in honor of Zeus, the recurring occasion of victory celebrated across the whole window.
in the Nemean contest of Zeus they have won seven times, and at home their victories are countless.
He has come from the lovely games of Nemea, the athletic boy who, pursuing this ordinance of Zeus, has shown that he is a successful hunter in the wrestling ring, by planting his step in the tracks of his grandfather, his blood-relative.
Sweet song, go on every merchant-ship and rowboat that leaves Aegina, and announce that Lampon’s powerful son Pytheas won the victory garland for the pancratium at the Nemean games, a boy whose cheeks do not yet show the tender season that is mother to the dark blossom.
Theages
Athletic contest that Charmides intended to train for before Socrates's sign warned against it.
he once happened to be consulting me on his intention of training for the Nemean races, and he had no sooner begun to say that he intended to train than the voice occurred, and I tried to prevent him, saying— Just as you were speaking my spirit-voice has occurred: