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It was city-state that gave me life: cultural study of city-state sport in ancient Greece

Ling Huang

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In the history of ancient Greek ideology,the appearance of city-state was an event with a decisive significance.It was city-state that gave me life,and that gave sports development a chance to become a social movement.Without the nourishing of city-state,sport would still parasitize human social behaviors such as labor,hunting,sacrifice,military affairs and entertainment.It was city-state that made sport independent,become one of the three backbones of education in ancient Greece.From the perspective of city-state sport,the author explored its functions on sports development,and analyzed that city-state sport contains such characteristic as happiness realization,free thought,justice demand,hero idol and brave quality.

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In the history of ancient Greek ideology,the appearance of city-state was an event with a decisive significance.It was city-state that gave me life,and that gave sports development a chance to become a social movement.Without the nourishing of city-state,sport would still parasitize human social behaviors such as labor,hunting,sacrifice,military affairs and entertainment.It was city-state that made sport independent,become one of the three backbones of education in ancient Greece.From the perspective of city-state sport,the author explored its functions on sports development,and analyzed that city-state sport contains such characteristic as happiness realization,free thought,justice demand,hero idol and brave quality.

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In the history of ancient Greek ideology,the appearance of city-state was an event with a decisive significance.It was city-state that gave me life,and that gave sports development a chance to become a social movement.Without the nourishing of city-state,sport would still parasitize human social behaviors such as labor,hunting,sacrifice,military affairs and entertainment.It was city-state that made sport independent,become one of the three backbones of education in ancient Greece.From the perspective of city-state sport,the author explored its functions on sports development,and analyzed that city-state sport contains such characteristic as happiness realization,free thought,justice demand,hero idol and brave quality.

Key concepts: City-state, State (computer science), Ideology, Entertainment, HERO, Happiness, Sociology, Political science

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