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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2715186, member: 19463&quot;]<a href="http://ancientolympics.arts.kuleuven.be/eng/TB029EN.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ancientolympics.arts.kuleuven.be/eng/TB029EN.html" rel="nofollow">http://ancientolympics.arts.kuleuven.be/eng/TB029EN.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The above link explains this as a way of saying the contest at Ankyra&nbsp; was not THE Pythian games but LIKE the Pythian games so the ISO prefix (meaning same as) is a bit like we now have Para-Olympics and Special Olympics for games that are not THE Olympics.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This might bear some more research since the link says the Pythian games were music contests while Wiki says there were contests in sports, art and music included.&nbsp; Since the games honored Apollo, that makes perfect sense but is not something I have researched before.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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