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Nemea 40 pictures 1.25 minutes HQ video Mythology furnishes two explanations for the name of the site: either that it was called after the daughter of the god of the river Asopos, or after Nemea daughter of Zeus and Semele. Nemea is another Peloponnesian sanctuary, already renowned in ancient times for the best red wine in all of Greece. It was here that the Panhellenic Nemean Games were held every two years in honor of Zeus. According to tradition, the Nemean games were initiated by the seven chiefs in honor of a dead child, in the same spirit that the Isthmian games had been introduced in honor of the dead boy Palaimon. The award for the winners of the nemean games was a crown of wild celery. Temple of Zeus Three of its Doric columns hava remained standing. The adyton is a well built structure about two meters deep under the floor of the cella, and can be reached by some steps hewn into the rock. It is 4 meters long and a little more than 3.5 meters wide. It was made of stone blocks similar to the ones used for the platform of the temple, and belongs to the same period (330-320 B.C.). This was also the site of an earlier temple belonging to the Archaic period. House of the Hellanodikai Hellenistic residences Stadium The stadium is about 500 meters east of the sanctuary on the slope of the hill. The stone starting point of the race-track and at about 180 meters opposite, the embankment retaining the race-rtack. Thesauroi Back to Greece Index