イストミア大祭
出典
古代オリンピックと同等と見なされていた競技:
戦車競走
パンクラチオン
レスリング
音楽および詩歌、この競技には女性の参加も許可されていた。
↑ “As he was marching up an ascent, from the top of which they expected to have a view of the army and of the strength of the enemy, there met him by chance a train of mules loaded with parsley; which his soldiers conceived to be an ominous occurrence or ill-boding token, because this is the herb with which we not unfrequently adorn the sepulchres of the dead; and there is a proverb derived from the custom, used of one who is dangerously sick, that he has need of nothing but parsley.
紀元前216年、テーバイのCleitomachus(1日の間にレスリング、ボクシング、パンクラチオンで優勝した)。