If we are to accept the traditional date of the first Olympic Games ( 776 BC ), we can say that the first Isthmian Games would have been held in 582 BC.
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The destruction of Corinth ( 146 BC ) brought Sicyon an acquisition of territory and the presidency over the Isthmian games; yet in Cicero's time it had fallen deep into debt.
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With the Isthmian Games, the Nemean Games were held both the year before and the year after the Ancient Olympic Games and the Pythian Games in the third year of the Olympiad cycle.
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He won three times in boxing at the Pythian Games; nine times in boxing and once in the pankration at the Isthmian Games; and nine times in boxing at the Nemean Games.
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It is well known for being home to the Isthmian Games and is also the site of major Greek monuments, such as the Temple of Isthmia that honors the Greek God, Poseidon.
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He was honored with a victory in every contest, and in the following year he proclaimed the freedom of the Greeks at the Isthmian Games in Corinth, just as Arch of Hadrian there.
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In the sixth century B . C . three other important athletic festivals were founded along Olympic lines : the Pythian Games at Delphi, the Isthmian Games at Corinth and the Nemean Games at Nemea.
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Athletic victories achieved by Ceans in panhellenic festivals were recorded at Ioulis on slabs of stone and thus Bacchylides could readily announce, in an ode celebrating one such victory ( Ode 2 ), a total of twenty-seven victories won by his countrymen at the Isthmian Games.
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The Apostle Paul, writing in the first century to Christians in the city of Corinth where the Isthmian Games were held, reflects this in his writings when he says, " Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize?
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Because the Greek thinker, who is believed to have been a wrestler in the Isthmian Games that were a warm-up to the ancient Olympics, argued for the scholar-athlete ideal of mind and body, that physical training should complement philosophical education for the best men and women.
