Panhellenic Games

athletic competitions in ancient Greece

ancient Panhellenic athletic festival held at Delphi in honor of Apollo

ancient panhellenic festival to Isthmian Poseidon in Greece

One of the four Panhellenic Games, in honor of Nemean Zeus

Four distinct Ancient Greek sports festivals

ancient women's sports festival in Olympia

thumb|150px|In addition to epinikia, a victorious athlete might be honored with a statue, as with this charioteer found at Delphi, probably a champion driver at the [[Pythian Games]] The epinikion or epinicion (: epinikia or epinicia, Greek , from epi-, "on" and nikê, "victory") is a genre of occasional poetry also known in English as a victory ode. In ancient Greece, the epinikion most often took the form of a choral lyric, commissioned for and performed at the celebration of an athletic victory in the Panhellenic Games and sometimes in honor of a victory in war. Major poets in the genre are

In ancient Greece, an agonothetes (, plural ''''''''; ἀγωνοθέται) were the persons who decided the disputes and awarded the prizes in the Panhellenic Games. Alternative names for the same role included athlothĕtae'' (ἀθλοθέται), particularly in Athens.

5th-century BC Greek athlete

The theoroi ( or ) in ancient Greece were sacred ambassadors, messengers sent out by the state which was about to organize a Panhellenic game or festival. Theoroi were both received and hosted by the theorodokoi. In the classical Greek world, theoroi meant something like "observers" and they were envoys sent by city-states to consult oracles, to give offerings at famous shrines or attend festivals.

The theorodokoi (Greek: , ) in ancient Greece were sacred envoy-receivers whose duty was to host and assist the theoroi (θεωροί, "viewers") before the Panhellenic games and festivals.