Isthmia
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From 228 BC or 229 BC onwards the Romans were
allowed to take part in the games.
The Games of 196 BC were used by Titus Quinctius Flamininus to proclaim
the freedom of the Greek states from Macedonian hegemony. Compare
Appian's account:
When he had arranged these things with them he went to the Isthmian
games, and, the stadium being full of people, he commanded silence by
trumpet and directed the herald to make this proclamation, "The Roman
people and Senate, and Flamininus, their general, having vanquished the
Macedonians and Philip, their king, order that Greece shall be free from
foreign garrisons, not subject to tribute, and shall live under her own
customs and laws."
Thereupon there was great shouting and rejoicing and a scene of
rapturous tumult; and groups here and there called the herald back in
order that he might repeat his words for them. They threw crowns and
fillets upon the general and voted statues for him in their cities. They
sent ambassadors with golden crowns to the Capitol at Rome to express
their gratitude, and inscribed themselves as allies of the Roman people.
Such was the end of the second war between the Romans and Philip.
Since the games' inception, Corinth had always been in control of them.
When Corinth was destroyed by the Romans in 146 BC, the Isthmian games
continued, but were now administered by Sicyon. Corinth was rebuilt by
Caesar in 44 BC. Corinth recovered ownership of the Games at some point
between 7 BC and AD 3. The Isthmian Games thereafter flourished until
Theodosius I suppressed them as a pagan ritual.
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