Analysis Of The Ancient Greek Sports As Life Style

Ancient Greek’s Sport is the world’s most glorious period in the history of sports by far. This essay aim to discuss the beginning and developing of Ancient Greek’s Sport through tracing the history of ancient Greece’s sports; from the perspective of history and philosophy, this essay analysis the reality and humanistic ideals of Ancient Greek’s Sport to seek the humanistic implication and the truth of sports, to activate current individuals and society’s imagination of sports, and advocate the modern sports return to the daily world.In the historical research, it is believed that value representations is better than epic representations, as a result, while doing this research author combines representation and discuss together; the representation of history itself already can reveal the common pattern or purpose of human behavior, therefore this article mainly use the literature review method and history method, through analysis the literature and history materials to form the completion of this essay.The expand reality of sports in Ancient Greece was from individual life into public life. Through individual’s daily working, living pattern, sports events, even war, Ancient Greek’s sports had been implemented into specific practice of life. In other words, as a life style, Ancient Greek’s sports exist in every individual’s daily life, and participate in the public world through the individual.Ancient Greek sports contain a wealth of cultural connotations. It is full of the fear of God; as a result, it has the characteristics of sports justice; in the pursuit of excellence of the hero, Ancient Greek sports highlighting the individual’s charisma and passion for life; it opened a public space for the public, and provide a stage for public to pursue honor and competitive spirit; it has been a place for individual and city to demonstrate the strength and beauty, a key issue for city to show the superiority and get the glory.Therefore, the highest achievements of ancient Greek sports was the pursuit of freedom and independence spirit in sports, and this spirit pursuit made the ultimate value of sports become construction on the basis of human goodness.As a human spirit, Ancient Greek sport had seeped into the lives of the ancient Greeks, sports extends their life, and their life also combined with the sport, sports and life become indivisible and together they promoted the glorious of ancient Greek life and living history; Ancient Greece contains a wealth of sports humanities purport, the idea of facing a higher survival is not only the ideal of Ancient Greeks, but also the highest pursuit of sports.