"The Flame Of Olympus"

The Olympic Games are a great human society, the cultural initiative, is a rich cultural activities, changing the face of the world's social environment can also faced with their own development problems, it can not develop without survival social, economic and cultural environment, the history of civilization in the world, specially the ancient Greek civilization with its elegance and outstanding achievements known to later generations. Olympic Movement is in such a civilization arising under the soil, the study of ancient Greek civilization and the ancient Greek Olympic sports on the development of our research has far-reaching significance.This theory of historical materialism, the use of domestic and foreign scholars have been a lot of research and information in English, combined with physical education, sociology, history, philosophy and other disciplines of knowledge, of ancient Greek sport and development of a more comprehensive and detailed investigation and interpretation of history, Greek civilization, the birthplace of the Olympic sports have been part of Greek culture in Greece's constitution as well as sports law makes provision for all sports. Greece held the first modern Olympic Games were held 108 years after the date and number of participants up to the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, plus the birthplace of the Olympic Games, Greece can say is the oldest sporting tradition in Europe. Ancient Olympic Games of ancient Greece left to posterity the most outstanding sports heritage, the ancient Olympic Games is not to say there is no contemporary prosperity of the modern Olympic movement, not the ancient Olympic spirit, it does not now the world's largest sporting event - the modern Olympic Games. Articles on sports in ancient Greece through the comprehensive study, analysis of the origin of today's sports and Olympic sports in ancient Greece on the impact of post-modern sport to to learn from. Text is divided into five parts:The first part analyzes the causes of sports in ancient Greece. History tells us that human civilization, with the development of productivity and lifestyle of the progress of the seeds will be sprouted out of sports. Economic base determines the superstructure. The production of sports in ancient Greece is no exception. Any social behavior and cultural development are profoundly affected by the production method, the Olympic sports as an integral part of Greek civilization from the beginning to arise from the unique nature of the production economy and the resulting way of life based on farming civilization has the different characteristics. The laws of nature is natural selection, survival of the fittest, war is one of the main ways the human competition, the military has become another important human social activities. Military capable of destroying human civilization, with the emergence of weapons of mass murder, military or even destroy human beings. It is because of the existence of the danger of war, forcing people to strive to enhance the competitiveness of its military to create the civilization-related sports is associated with one of civilization. Several philosophers of ancient Greece also illustrates the physical education and competitive sports people to appreciate the power and joy, and promoted the production of sports in ancient Greece.The second part describes the development process of sports in ancient Greece. From ancient Athens to the complete system of physical education and sports culture of Sparta's military, and ultimately to the form of the ritual, rich in content and form of the Greek nation wide variety of comprehensive sports event of the ancient Olympic Games, about the ancient Greek rich movement method, near perfect competition system - especially the Olympic sports and the sporting spirit of the ancient Greeks, as well as military training developed highly specialized skills, become highly developed the Axial Age symbol of sports culture, has also decided to later western sports development.The third part of the reason for the decline of the ancient Greek Olympics. Ancient Olympic Games "barbaric" side, the Greek civilization, democracy will not be tolerated, gradually decline; war tends to make the ancient Olympic Decline, revenge and contempt in people's attention to religion, interests and neglects the importance of justice case, the Olympic Games - Zeus The Games - a model of morality, this model has been an unprecedented challenge. The performance of the Games to the same war, political confrontation, the war for the Games created a new game mode, so that the Olympic Games alienation. City's exceptionally preferential treatment Olympic champion athletes bring the material life, social status greatly improved, making heroes more attention based on real interests, the reality of life and gradually lose the spirit of the pursuit of the Olympic Games gradually lost the divinity of the The unsustainable, and finally into the abyss.The fourth part of the characteristics of ancient Greek sport, the spirit of sports, sports legislation and the impact of the Olympic Games of ancient Rome and ancient Greece to the world of sports reviewed five sports in ancient Greece in society an important role in physical education, and the social, political, economic, cultural, religious and other play an active role for the human left a valuable spiritual wealth.By the fifth part of the sports culture in Greece compared to the future, open up the mainstream of Chinese traditional sports fitness sports and traditional sports to the mainstream of Greek competitive sports. Sport as a kind of cultural phenomenon, its formation and development of human culture is closely linked to progress. The development of sport in different areas and different nations is the inevitable result of the inherent requirements of the culture. Therefore, follow along the path of history, from the perspective of cultural studies with different areas, different nations with a comparative study of traditional sports, no doubt sports for the development of our in-depth understanding of the law to seize the future, provide useful inspiration.