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28 Ιουν 2024 · It was at Nemea that the ancient Greeks celebrated athletic and religious festivals that were part of the cycle of games at Delphi, Isthmia, and (best known today) Olympia. It was at one of these four sites that, for a brief period each year, wars and hostilities were suspended by a sacred truce, and all Greeks gathered in recognition of their ...
Olympia was the birthplace of the most famous and important sporting event in the ancient world. The Olympic Games took place here every four years from 776 BC to 393 AD. The site was also a place of worship dedicated to the Greek god Zeus from about the 10th century BC.
Nemea is situated in a fertile valley some 35km southwest of Corinth and is where Hercules is said to have killed the Nemean lion, the first of his twelve labours. It is also famous as the site of the Panhellenic Nemean Games held in honour of Zeus and was an important religious sanctuary of ancient Greece.
The Nemean Games (Greek: Νέμεα or Νέμεια) were one of the four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece, and were held at Nemea every two years (or every third). 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.
The archaeological site of Nemea is emblematic due to the organisation of the Nemean Games in antiquity. The site includes the sport roots of Europe and the ideals of classical sports as an element for the comprehensive education of young people.
At a point in time not far from 330 B.C., the games returned to Nemea as is attested by a massive building program which included the Temple of Zeus and the Early Hellenistic Stadium. It is very likely that this program represents a Macedonian role at Nemea, specifically from Philip and his son Alexander the Great.
27 Ιουλ 2012 · Nemea was a religious sanctuary in the northern Peloponnese of Greece where pan - Hellenic athletic games were held every two years from 573 BCE until 271 BCE, after which, the Games were definitively moved to Argos.
