Nemea
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the deep plain of Nemea · the grove of Nemean Zeus · the sacred precinct of the Nemean Jupiter · the vale of Nemea
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Nemean
The valley and sanctuary of Zeus where the Nemean games are held, the recurring occasion and setting for the entire sequence of odes.
The chariot of Chromius and Nemea urge me to harness a song of praise for deeds of victory.
But in remembrance of Zeus and in honor of Nemea, whirl a far-famed strain of song, softly.
in the Nemean contest of Zeus they have won seven times, and at home their victories are countless.
Olympian
Site of the Nemean Games, named among the victories of Diagoras, Melesias, Timosthenes, and Epharmostus.
For I will tell how he himself won the same grace at Nemea, and later, among men, in the battle of the pancratium.
And then there were two other joyous victories at the gates of Corinth, and others won by Epharmostus in the vale of Nemea;
With the flowers from these Diagoras has had himself crowned twice, and at the renowned Isthmus four times, in his good fortune, and again and again at Nemea and in rocky Athens;
History of the Peloponnesian War
A site near Argos where the Argives initially position themselves against the Lacedaemonian advance and where the assembled coalition army is described at its most impressive.
and it appeared such especially while it was still all united at Nemea.
The Argives, having discovered it, advanced from Nemea, when it was now day, to their succour;
And now the Boeotians, Megareans, and Sicyonians advanced, as they had been ordered, towards Nemea, and found the Argives no longer there;
Hellenica
A place where Epaminondas halts his advance, hoping to intercept the Athenians, before continuing toward Tegea.
But when Epaminondas heard that the Athenians had given up the plan of proceeding by land and were preparing to go by sea, with the intention of marching through Lacedaemon to the aid of the Arcadians, under these circumstances he set forth from Nemea and arrived at Tegea.
but when he arrived at Nemea he delayed there, hoping to catch the Athenians as they passed by, and estimating that this would be a great achievement, not only in the view of his people’s allies, so as to encourage them, but also in that of their opponents, so that they would fall into despondency — in a word, that every loss the Athenians suffered was a gain for the Thebans.
And as the two armies marched on, the Corinthians and their allies were in the district of Nemea, and the Lacedaemonians and their allies at Sicyon, at almost the same time.
On Fate
Site of the Nemean Games, cited as an example destination not determined by climate.
Yet that thin air will not bring it about that a man should listen to Zeno, or to Arcesilaus, or to Theophrastus, nor will the thick air make him seek victory at Nemea rather than at the Isthmus.
Isthmean
Site of the Nemean games (and of Heracles's first labor, the Nemean lion), where several honorees in this window also won victories.
But for you, Phylacidas, flourishing twofold excellence is recorded at the Isthmus, and at Nemea for both you and Pytheas in the pancratium.
May he have a body as invulnerable as this skin that is now wrapped around me, from the beast whom I killed that day in Nemea as the very first of my labors.
For those splendid boys and their uncle won three victories in the pancratium—at the Isthmus, and others at Nemea with its fine trees, and they brought to light a great share of praises.