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Olympia at Pisa The site of the original Olympic games., 3 times.
Pythia at Delphi, 2 times.
Nemea at Argos, 3 times.
Isthmia at Corinth, 2 times.
Panathenaea at Athens, 2 times.
Olympia at Athens.
Panhellenia at Athens.
Eleusinia at Athens, 3 times.
Heracleia at Thebes, 3 times.
Trophonia at Lebadeia, 2 times.
Eleutheria at Plataea.
The Shield from Argos, 3 times original: "tēn ex argous aspida". This refers to the Heraia games at Argos where the prize was a bronze shield..
Pythia at Melos.
Pythia at Magnesia.
Games of the Asia Confederation at Philadelphia.
Actia at Nicopolis, 4 times Games established by Augustus to celebrate the Battle of Actium..
Pythia at Side, 2 times.
Pythia at Perge, 4 times.
Pythia at Thessaloniki.
Asclepieia at Epidaurus.
Capitoline Games at Rome, 3 times.
Games of Athena Promachos at Rome, 4 times.
Eusebeia at Puteoli.
Sebasta at Neapolis The "Augustan Games" held in Naples, which were heavily modeled on Greek athletic traditions..
Antonia, also known as Socratice, for my sweetest husband Antiochus, with whom I lived, I made this hero-shrine herōon A monument or small chapel dedicated to a deceased person, treating them with the honors of a hero. as an end to labors.
I entrust this hero-shrine to the gods of the underworld katachthonioi The "chthonic" deities who dwell beneath the earth, associated with both fertility and the dead. to guard—to Pluto, Demeter, Persephone, and the Furies original: "Erinysi", and to all the gods of the underworld. If anyone should strip the ornaments from this shrine, or dismantle it, or even move anything else, whether by himself or through another: may the earth not be walkable for him, nor the sea sailable, but may he be uprooted with his whole race. May he fall into every evil: shivering, fever, quartan ague A form of malaria where the fever recurs every four days., and elephantiasis original: "elephanti"; likely referring to a severe skin or limb-swelling disease., and whatever evils happen to men; let these things happen to the one who dares to move anything from this hero-shrine.