place
Nemea
also: Nemea
A valley in the Argolid, site of the Nemean Games, one of the four great Panhellenic festivals. Cicero (De Fato 7) names it with the Isthmus to show that a region's air does not determine where an athlete seeks victory.
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §2.22 the Nemean lion
The invulnerable lion of Nemea in the Argolid, strangled by Hercules in his first Labor; its impenetrable hide became the hero's cloak. One of the monsters enumerated in the Trachiniae passage.