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Isthmian Games

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Isthmian Games
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(Historical Terms) a Panhellenic festival celebrated every other year in ancient Corinth
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Noun1.Isthmian Games - the ancient Panhellenic games held biennially on the Isthmus of Corinth in the first and third years of each Olympiad
agon - a festivity in ancient Greece at which competitors contended for prizes


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At Olympia he was awarded the main prize for the chariot race (despite failing to finish), and during the Isthmian games in Corinth, on the eve of his departure, he stood in the middle of the stadium and presented the whole province with its freedom, and conferred Roman citizenship as well as large cash rewards upon the judges (Suetonius, Nero 24).
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