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Nemean Games

One of the four great national festivals of ancient Greece held at the Peloponnesian city of Nemea in the second and fourth year of each Olympiad, i.e. the four year period between the Olympic Games.

The Nemean Games were founded to honor the infant son of Lykurgos (Lycurgus) who has been named as either Arkhemoros (Archemoros) or Opheletes (the name Opheletes implies a debt or obligation); the nurse of the infant, Hypsipyle, was preoccupied while trying to assist the soldiers known as the Seven Against Thebes and left the child unattended; either a snake or a dragon killed the boy and, in order to spare the nurse’s life for her blunder and to appease the king, the Nemean Games were instituted at the insistence of the soldiers.

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