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Definition of Nemean games
1. Noun. The ancient Panhellenic games held biennially at Nemea in the second and fourth years of each Olympiad.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nemean Games
Literary usage of Nemean games
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"The nemean games, like the Isthmian, in this respect were biennial ... 15, 2)
and Pindar that, besides the simple foot-race, the nemean games included the ..."
2. The Mythology and Fables of the Ancients, Explain'd from History by Banier (Antoine) (1740)
"... were appointed to take Care of them, and to exhibit them after the manner of
the Greeks. CHAP. VI. Of the nemean games. ..."
3. Archaeologia Graeca, Or The Antiquities of Greece by John Potter, Robert Anderson, George Dunbar (1832)
"... were by degrees made in these games, which I shall not trouble you with. CHAP.
XXIV. OF THE nemean games. JL HE nemean games" were so called from ..."
4. A Compendium of Grecian Antiquities by Charles Dexter Cleveland (1854)
"THE nemean games. THE nemean games derived their name from Nemea, Ne a city and
sacred grove of Argolis, in the north-eastern cel part of Peloponnesus. ..."
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