{Religious Festival Cycles}[31st December 1990]

[Redbook8:165][19901231:1301b]{Religious Festival Cycles}[31st December 1990]

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‘The Pythian festival **|(at Delphi*)|** was reorganised on a larger scale, with athletic and other competitions; it was to be held every four years, and the year 582[bce]*** was reckoned as the first Pythiad.’

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– The Olympic festival was also held every 4 years, reckoning the first to have been in 776bce;# the Isthmian Games and the Nemean Games were celebrated every 2 years.

*ie for the Oracle

**[text bracketed between **| & |** is in square brackets in the ms paragraph, indicating insertion in the ms]

***Shame!

{(64C[,]512R~[=]576BCE => 64R~584}

**** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 20], 258

#{64C[,]512J~[=]768[bce] => 64R~776}

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