Pierre de Coubertin

Charles Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin, best known as Pierre de Coubertin (1863 – 1937), was a French educator and historian.

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Coubertin was convinced of the parallel importance of the development of mind and body, and he saw this ideal in ancient Greek culture. He had the idea to revive the Games of Olympia, and started to promote this notion. He is known as the father of the modern Olympic Games.^[1]

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Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece (mentioned only)

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↑ Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece – Elis: The Olympic Heritage

Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece

People

Mythical	Abderos • Achilles • Admete • Adonis • Adrastos • Aegeus • Agamemnon • Aietes • Ajax • Akamas • Amphiaraos • Andromeda • Aphrodite • Apollo • Ares • Ariadne • Artemis • Asklepios • Athena • Athira • Atlas • Atreus • Bellerophon • Charybdis • Chiron • Circe • Chrysaor • Cyrene • Daidalos • Demeter • Diomedes • Dionysos • Eileithyia • Erechtheos • Erigone • Eros • Eteokles • Eurystheas • Eurytion • Gaia • Geryon • Glauke • Hades • Helen • Helios • Hephaistos • Hera • Herakles • Hermes • Hesperides • Hestia • Hippolyta • Hippolytos • Hygieia • Ikarios • Ikaros • Iris • Iolaos • Jason • Kastor and Pollux • Kekrops • Keleos • Kerkyon • Klytaimnestra • Koronis • Kronos • Leto • Medea • Medusa • Melissa • Merope • Minos • Nike • Odysseus • Oedipus • Ouranos • Pan • Pandion • Pasiphae • Patroklos • Pelias • Pelops • Penelope • Periphetes • Persephone • Perseus • Phaedra • Phyleas • Polydektes • Polynikes • Polyphemos • Poseidon • Rhea • Skylla • Theseus • Tityos • Typhon • Zeus

8th-5th century BCE	Acanthos of Sparta • Hesiod • Homer • Koroibos of Elis \| Periander • Tyrtaios \| Aristion of Paros • Artaxeres II • Darius I • Demokritos • Euphronios • Heraklitos of Ephesus • Hippias • Kleisthenes • Milo of Kroton • Peisistratos • Pythagoras • Sappho • Solon • Thales of Miletios \| Agis II • Aischylos • Alkibiades • Anaxagoras • Archidamos II • Aristophanes • Aspasia • Brasidas • Demosthenes • Euripides • Gorgias • Hiero I • Herodotos • Hippokrates • Iktinos • Kallikrates • Kephalos • Kimon • Kleon • Konon • Kyniska • Leonidas I • Lysander • Lysias • Nikias • Pausanias of Sparta • Perikles • Phidias • Philippides • Pindar • Pleistoanax • Polykleitos • Protagoras • Sokrates • Sophokles • Sosias • Themistokles • Thucydides • Xerxes I

4th-1st century BCE	Alexander the Great • Antisthenes • Aristippos • Aristotle • Aristoxenos of Tarentum • Diogenes • Eudoxos of Knidos • Euryleonis • Isokrates • Philip II of Macedon • Plato • Speusippos • Theophrastos \| Menander \| Lucius Mummius \| Strabo • Virgil • Vitruvius

1st-6th century	Dioskourides • Ovid • Pausanias • Plutarch \| Constantine I \| Justinian I

18th-20th century	Heinrich Schliemann • Pierre de Coubertin

Factions

Delian League • Peloponnesian League • Achaemenid Empire | Byzantine Empire | Ottoman Empire

Locations

Anatolia (Ionia) • Argos • Attika (Athens) • Boeotia (Thebes) • Euboea (Chalkis) • Kephallonia • Korinthia (Korinth) • Kos • Krete • Lakonia (Sparta) • Makedonia (Olynthos) • Messenia • Thrace | Mythical (Olympos • Underworld) | Byzantine Empire (Constantinople)

Events

Trojan War | Greco-Persian Wars (Battle of Marathon • Battle of Salamis • Battle of Thermopylae) • Battle of Plataia | Battle of the Eurymedon • Second Messenian War | Peloponnesian War (Battle of Amphipolis • Battle of Pylos • Battle of Sphakteria) • Plague of Athens | Fourth Crusade

Terms and concepts

Currencies (Drachma) • Culture and society (agoge • helot • krypteia • perioikoi • pythia) • Minoan civilization • Ostracism • Greek mythology

Development/creative team

Caroline Soucy • Gabriel Blain • Thierry Dansereau • Hugo Puzzuoli • Miguel Bouchard • Vincent Lamontagne • Fred Rambaud • Scott Phillips • Paul Green • Lydia Andrew • Michael Guimont • Benjamin Hall • Nika Rukavishnikova • David Therrien • Kate Lewis

zh:皮埃尔·德·顾拜旦

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