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- Olympic Games - the most important and prestigious of the Games, held every four years near Elis, in honour of Zeus; the prize was a wreath of wild olive
- Pythian Games - held every four years, near Delphi, in honour of Apollo; the prize was a wreath of laurel
- Nemean Games - held every two years, near Nemea, also in honour of Zeus; the prize was a wreath of wild celery
- Isthmian Games - held every two years, near Corinth, in honour of Poseidon; the prize was a wreath of pine Read full entry
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- 1.Panhellenic Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Panhellenic Games is the collective term for four separate sports festivals held ... Categories: Panhellenic Games | Festivals in Ancient Greece ...
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P
anhellenic_Games
- 2.The Olympic Games in Antiquity
- tury BC - Sites of the Panhellenic Games: Olympia, Delphi, Isthmia ... Overview of Olympia, the most important Panhellenic Games site ...
- http://multimedia.olympic.org/
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What are the Pythian and I just don't know what they
are and whould like to know so
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I don't know about the Pythian, but Panhellenic means "across the Hellenes". If you listen closely to the Athens 2004 ceremonies, you will hear the person in charge announced as "... of the Hellenic Republic", this is because what we know today as Greece used to be known as Hellas (in fact that it still used as the Greek translation for Greece) and during this period of the Olympics, only people of Hellenic blood (i.e born to Greeks and born in modern day Greece) were allowed to compete |
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