资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Isthmian \Isth"mi*an\, a. [L. Isthmius, Gr. ?. See {Isthmus}.]
   Of or pertaining to an isthmus, especially to the Isthmus of
   Corinth, in Greece.

   {Isthmian games} (Gr. Antiq.), one of the four great national
      festivals of Greece, celebrated on the Isthmus of Corinth
      in the spring of every alternate year. They consisted of
      all kinds of athletic sports, wrestling, boxing, racing on
      foot and in chariots, and also contests in music and
      poetry. The prize was a garland of pine leaves.

资料来源 : WordNet®

Isthmian Games
     n : the ancient Panhellenic games held biennially on the Isthmus
         of Corinth in the first and third years of each Olympiad