Punishments: Since such activities were punishable, one then questions what sorts of punishments were issued in response to crimes at panhellenic sites. Even before Delphi's fame as an international institution, people went there to receive Apollo's "justice." Coroebus, for example, is said to have slain the mythical Vengeance, and then to have travelled to Delphi to be punished by Apollo (Pausanius 1.43.7). There is a sense, therefore, that some punishment at panhellenic sites was doled out directly by the gods.

With respect to the games at Olympia and Delphi, mortals seem to have taken the law into their own hands, claiming it was the will of the gods' as well. In general, punishment for illegal acts in athletic events resulted in fines levied on the guilty parties. These fines were then used to fund the construction of votive statues that commemorated the illegal deed. Through this commemoration, the statues were ultimately meant to deter future violations. The Zanes were one such group of statues whose erection was enabled by fines on law-breaking athletes (Pausanius, 5.21.2).

Punishments for direct sacrileges were not as predictable. As with violations in athletic contests, the Greeks imposed fines on the impious parties. The Amphictyons, for example, fined the Phocians for tilling the territory of a god, and used the proceeds to build a commemorative image of Apollo. Sometimes, however, the punishment involved more severe measures: for seizing Apollo's sanctuary, temple robbers were condemned to death by the Amphictyons (Pausanius 10.15.1).