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Like the ancient Olympic Games
Answer for the clue "Like the ancient Olympic Games ", 11 letters:
panhellenic
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also Related: pan-Hellenic , 1847, "pertaining to or involving all the Greeks," from Greek Panhellenes "all the Hellenes;" see pan- + Hellenic . Related: Panhellenism .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Panhellenic \Pan`hel*len"ic\, a. [See Panhellenium .] Of or pertaining to all Greece, or to Panhellenism; including all Greece, or all the Greeks.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (alternative form of Panhellenic English)
Usage examples of panhellenic.
For them history began with a splendid Panhellenic expedition against an Eastern foe, led by kings and including contingents from all the more than one hundred and fifty places listed in the catalogue in Book 2.
But Isthmia is best known for the Panhellenic Games, which was very popular in the Roman colonial period.
From the sixth century Before the Common Era, the Pythian games, one of the great quartet of Panhellenic festivals, had been held in the third year of the Olympic cycle.