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Isthmia
Q1232123Isthmia: town on the Corinthian isthmus in Greece, site of the Isthmian Games (Greek Ἰσθμιάδες).
History
- Sanctuary dates back to Mycenaean times
- c.700 BCE: Archaic temple of Poseidon
- c.582 BCE: Isthmian Games, organized by Corinth (one of the four main Panhellenic festivals; the three others were the Olympic, Pythian, and Nemean Games)
- Site of the Greek HQs during the Persian War
- c.480 BCE: Temple destroyed by fire
- c.465 BCE: Temple of Poseidon rebuilt
- 395-387 BCE: Corinthian War, temple destroyed and rebuilt
- New stadium in the Hellenistic age
- 198 BCE: Roman siege (catapult stones have been found near Rakhi)
- 196 BCE: site of Flaminius' declaration that the Greek towns were to be free and autonomous
- Theater, Roman baths, Palaimonion
- The Isthmian Games belonged to the most important games in the Roman world
- s.IV: Rise of Christianity, end of pagan festivals
- Byzantine age: church, stones from the ancient temple reused in the Hexamilion wall across the Isthmus to defend Corinth and the Peloponnese;