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Definition of Pythian games
1. Noun. The ancient Panhellenic celebration at Delphi held every four years in the third year of the Olympiad in honor of Apollo.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pythian Games
Literary usage of Pythian games
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1848)
"I preters, including Haack, understood it to mean that " the truce " having lasted
on till the celebration of the pythian games, then ended. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"Once the pythian games were held at Athens, on the advice of Demetrius ...
The pythian games were, according to most legends, instituted by Apollo himself ..."
3. Archaeologia Graeca: Or, The Antiquities of Greece by John Potter, George Dunbar (1818)
"Of the pythian games. ... pythian games were celebrated near Delphi, and are by
some thought to have been first instituted by ..."
4. The Monthly Magazine by Richard Phillips, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) (1807)
"1'he pythian games were celebrated '•nor of Apollo, near Delphi (Pind. e to have
been instit'.itcd by Am- /ion. Od. VI ), and are supposed by ;tyon, ..."
5. Chambers's encyclopædia by Chambers W. and R., ltd (1874)
"Several of Pindar's extant odes relate to victors in the pythian games. PY'THON,
a genus of serpents of the family Bo'ulce (see Вол), ..."
6. The History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1855)
"The pythian games were celebrated under the presidency of Philip or his ambassadors,
by virtue of the Amphictyonic decree, which conferred that honour on ..."
7. A History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1851)
"The pythian games were celebrated under the presidency of Philip or his ambassadors,
by virtue of the Amphictyonic decree, which conferred that honour on ..."
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