pythian games造句

• A modern attempt to revive an ancient Greek festival Pythian Games.
• These Pythian Games rank second among the four stephanitic games chronologically and in importance.
• After this, the Pythian Games were held every four years, under the direction of the Amphictyons.
• At Troezene he had founded a temple of Apollo Epibaterius and instituted the Pythian games there.
• Smaller versions of the Pythian Games were celebrated in many other cities of the Levant and Greece.
• The stadium that hosted those Pythian Games every four years sits high above the Temple of Apollo.
• In the beginning, only musical contests were held in the Pythian Games then extended by singing to instrumental performances.
• Strabo reports that Timosthenes wrote a " Pythian mood " for a musical contest at the Pythian games at Delphi.
• In commemoration of this legend, the winners at the Pythian Games received a wreath of laurel picked in the Temple.
• In historic times, an amphictyony might survive as a form of religious organization enjoined to support specific Olympic and Pythian games.
• The Pythian Games were ceremonial games held every four years at a site near Delphi to honor Apollo's slaying of the serpent.
• The history of the Delphic or Pythian Games reaches back 2600 years and took place in the year preceding the Olympic Games.
• The Games were part of a cycle known as the Panhellenic Games, which included the Pythian Games, the Nemean Games, and the Isthmian Games.
• Although the treasures of Delphi had been oracle and temple of Apollo, on the Pythian Games and on the description of the ex votos.
• The Olympic games awarded a garland of olives; the Pythian games, a garland of Hellenistic periods, and again one of pine from then on.
• In 246 BC, the Aetolian confederacy reorganized the festivities in order to equal others ancient games ( e . g . the Pythian games ).
• After the Spartans departure, the Athenians, led by Pericles, gave back to the Phocians the rule of Delphi and the management of the Pythian Games.
• This starting line at the Delphi stadium used for the Pythian Games at Delphi, Greece has a design representative of that of many ancient Greek stadiums.
• And the Olympics were not alone in ancient Greece : The Pythian games honored Apollo, the Isthmian games honored Poseidon, the Nemean games honored Nemean Zeus.