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Nemean Games   /nˈimiən geɪmz/   Listen
Nemean Games

noun
1.
The ancient Panhellenic games held biennially at Nemea in the second and fourth years of each Olympiad.





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"Nemean Games" Quotes from Famous Books



... not see well enough how the Fable might arise, without unveracity on the part of any one? It is the way most Gods have come to appear among men: thus, if in Pindar's time 'Neptune was seen once at the Nemean Games,' what was this Neptune too but a 'stranger of noble grave aspect,' fit to be 'seen'! There is something pathetic, tragic for me in this last voice of Paganism. Thor is vanished, the whole Norse world has vanished; and will not return ever again. In like fashion to that pass away the highest ...
— Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History • Thomas Carlyle


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