Defining Culture as the whole of the social structure and the religious, artistic, intellectual manifestations, which identify a group and society compared with each other, we come to the conclusion that the parallel development of the three human elements- the mind, spirit and body is necessarily required in order to have a solidly scientific culture, after constant training and long experience. The human Physical culture is important, nevertheless we must not neglect the advancement of the mind and the psyche.    

Platon - Hippocrates

Platon, the Greek philosopher, born in Athens (~427-347BC) was the scholar of Socrates. After traveling to Egypt and Sicily he came back to Athens. In 387BC he founded his Academy. For about thirty years he taught his ideas through his “Dialogues” with his teacher. His logic idealism has marked the human mind.

Hippocrates the Greek doctor, born in Cos Island in ~460BC, he died in Larissa, Thessalia in ~377BC. The system of the great doctor of the antiquity lied on the alternation of organisms’ mood, the humor. He knew the problems caused by the moral responsibility. Globally the doctors vow on the  “Hippocrates Vow” ethics.

Human Pharos - Olympic Movement

Time had worn out the ancient Olympiads by 393, when Theodossius I signed their end. The seismic activity and the overflow of the Alphaeus and Cladeos Rivers covered the Altis putting out the Olympic flame. After the fall of the Byzantine capital the Greek scholars went out bringing the ancient Greek language and culture all over the world. The German archaeologist Ernst Curtius visited Greece for the first time in 1838. In 1852 he wrote a book on Olympia. From 1875 to 1881 the ancient monuments of Olympia were dug up by the German archaeological school by Ernst Curtius and Friedrich Adler. This work inspired the educator, Baron Pierre de Fréddy de Coubertin, for the revival of the ancient Olympic Games. Demetrius Vikelas, being the president of the Section of the Committee that discussed the subject, suggested that the I Olympiad should be held in Athens in 1896, in order to honor the country that gave birth to the Olympic Spirit. The American professor of the Princeton University, William M. Sloane, as well as many more Philhellene delegates cordially supported Demetrius Vikelas’ proposal, while the great sociologist and pedagogue Baron de Coubertin immediately accepted the idea, for the reasons of “symbolism and prestige” of the modern Olympiads. In England, since 1850 William Penny Brooks, inspired by the ancient Olympic education has established the “English Olympic Games” trying to realize his humanistic beliefs. The Greek men: Evangelos Zappas and Georgios Averof supported the idea of the revival of the Olympiads rendering wealth, Panayiotis Soutsos wrote his poetry, the Gymnast Ioannis Fokianos promoted the Physical Education. The 23rd of June is the International Olympic Day, after the revival of Olympiads in 1894, in Paris.