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Panhellenic athletic games

A male athlete in a red tank top stands in front of a stadium with ancient columns under a dramatic sky, suggesting participation in the Panhellenic athletic games.

The four ancient Greek festival games held on a rolling four-year schedule: the Olympic, Pythian, Nemean and Isthmian games. Together they formed the periodos that an elite athlete might attempt to win. The Antikythera Mechanism's front face includes a small dial that names the games due in each year of a four-year cycle, suggesting its owner used it to plan travel as well as to read the sky.

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