NEMEAN GAMES

Domain	Definition
Literature	Nemean Games (The). One of the four great national festivals of Greece, celebrated at nemea, in Argolis, every alternate year, the first and third of each Olympiad. The victor's reward was at first a crown of olive-leaves, but subsequently a garland of ivy. Pindar has eleven odes in honour of victors at these games. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Nemean Games

The Nemean Games were one of the Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece, and were held at Nemea every two years.

With the Isthmian Games, the Nemean Games were held both the year before and the year after the Olympic Games and the Pythian Games in the third year of the Olympiad cycle. Like the Olympic Games, they were held in honour of Zeus. They were said to have been founded by Heracles after he defeated the Nemean Lion; another myth said that they originated as the funeral games of a child named Opheltes. However, they are known to have existed only since the 6th century BC.

The winners received a wreath of wild celery leaves from the city of Argos.

Anagrams: NEMEAN GAMES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-e-g-m-m-n-n-s"
	-2 letters: manganese.
	-3 letters: gamesman, gamesmen.
	-4 letters: manages, maneges, menages, sagamen.
	-5 letters: agenes, enemas, gammas, gasman, gasmen, gemmae, magmas, manage, manege, manges, mannas, menage, mensae, seaman, seamen, sememe, senega, smegma.
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