These men are obviously professional athletes who, after appearing with some success at the "Nemea," are in training for the impending "Pythia" at Delphi.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life] Reference

This being so, he abandoned his base of Nemea and pushed on to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hellenica] Reference

Apollo at Delphi and to Zeus at Olympia and to Nemea and to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laws] Reference

Olympia, Delphi, Nemea and the Isthmus, which don't happen every year.    From Wordnik.com.  [See Delphi and Die]

That Pythia, Isthmia, and Nemea are not mentioned may be more than tact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

“Our solemn festivals,” e.g. those held at Olympia, Delphi, the Isthmus, Nemea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hiero] Reference

They soared above the mountains of Otherness, over the great dragon reserves of Nemea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Furies] Reference

But during his pause at Nemea those who shared the opposite policy had time to converge on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hellenica] Reference

Siv had opened a bottle of red wine, a mild 1998 from Nemea, ready to pour into the glasses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nutrition] Reference

Peloponnesus, in the forest between Kleona and Nemea, and could be wounded by no weapons made of man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference

When the army was collected they set out for Nemea, which was at this time governed by king Lycurgus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference

It was now daylight, and the Argives, who had become aware of his movements, quitted Nemea and went in search of the enemy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

Victors at these games received wreaths or crowns, for example made of olive leaves at Olympia, celery at Nemea, and pine at Isthmia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Augustan Games of Naples] Reference

Mycenæ, to Nemea, where, in a beautiful little valley, three Doric columns, still standing, testify to the former sanctity of the spot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862] Reference

Miller said the Nemea museum -- where the Aidonia jewelry has been placed on display -- generates two million dollars in tourist revenue annually.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mycenaean Jewelry Goes Home] Reference

Eurystheus first set Hercules to keep his sheep at Nemea and to kill the lion that ofttimes carried off the sheep, and sometimes the shepherd also.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference

Agis then drew off his forces, and returned by way of Nemea to Sparta; and the allies, much against their will, were compelled to follow his example.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from Thucydides] Reference

The first labour imposed on him was to destroy the lion that haunted the forests of Nemea and Cleonæ, and could not be wounded by the arrows of a mortal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference

Pythian, at Delphos, sacred to Apollo; the Isth'mian, at Corinth, to Neptune; the Nemean, at Nemea, to Hercules; and the Olympic, at Olympia in E'lis, to Jupiter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference

Avoiding the road by Nemea, which led through a narrow and dangerous pass, he led his Spartans over the mountains and descended into the plain which surrounds the city of Argos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from Thucydides] Reference

The valley of Nemea was infested by a terrible lion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Age of Fable] Reference

Isthmian on the Corinthian isthmus, the Nemean at Nemea, a city of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Age of Fable] Reference

Discovering this, the Argives came up from Nemea, day having now dawned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

Olympia and Delphi, and every three and five years at Nemea and the isthmus of Corinth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology] Reference

And the servants told him that it was Heracles come back with the skin of the lion of Nemea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles] Reference

Nemea said she needed a beret, so one of the artist ran out to their car and brought back the hat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The EDM SuperBlog] Reference

Doric, with columns less massive than those of Syracuse and Corinth, less slender than those of Nemea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two] Reference

Corinthians, Phliasians, and Pellenians; and on the side of Nemea the Boeotians, Sicyonians, and Megarians.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

The festival was celebrated in honor of the Nemean Zeus, in the valley of Nemea between Philus and Cleonæ.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01] Reference

"If Aristophon chose to paint him side by side with the beautiful Nemea, it is no fault of his," said Eudora.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philothea A Grecian Romance] Reference

Fly down to Nemea, where the pasture is, kill Argus, take Io across the sea to Egypt, and convert her into Isis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01] Reference

Yet the Nemea and Isthmia acquired a celebrity not much inferior; the Olympic prize counting for the highest of all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01] Reference

The men of Sikyon alone ventured to meet him at Nemea, and them he overthrew in a pitched battle, and erected a trophy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Lives, Volume I] Reference

Hercules set forth armed with bow and quiver, but paused in the outer wood of Nemea long enough to cut himself his famous club.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes Every Child Should Know] Reference

They were celebrated once in two years -- the Nemean in the valley of Nemea between Phlius and Cleonae -- and the Isthmian by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest] Reference

But it is true that instead of beginning at the beginning I was carried away to the meetings at the Isthmus and Olympia and Nemea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03] Reference

But what was it that the oracle of Nemea amused and puzzled us by saying, "To form a collection is well, yet to take a walk is better"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy] Reference