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Nemea

Ancient site in Argolis, in the northeastern Peloponnese, with a grove and temple of Zeus. It was the scene of the Nemean Games and of Heracles' legendary killing of the Nemean Lion.



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Avoiding therefore Nemea on the Isthmus of Corinth, to which he supposed the oracle to refer, Hesiod retired to Oenoe in Locris where he was entertained by Amphiphanes and Ganyetor, sons of a certain Phegeus.
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