gymnastics were the most necessary elements of the education of the youth of Athens. Each of the above subjects was taught by a special teacher.
ATHENS Although education was neither compulsory nor public, the state supervised and regulated the proper functioning of the individual schools of education in Athens. The lawsuit was addressed to all the boys of the Athenian citizens but not to the girls and the slaves. Parents sought the harmonious development of their children, giving importance to music and gymnastics. So from a very early age the Athenians sent their children to the children's mill, to the arena, to learn the techniques of wrestling and to strengthen their body. Later, teenagers exercised physically in the city's public gyms, the gymnasiums. There he was involved in wrestling, pancratium, boxing, road, jumping, javelin and discus throwing and various other activities and games. Through letters, music and gymnastics, the Athenians sought to cultivate the mind and body, aiming for a harmonious whole, where a strong mind coexisted within a strong body. PAN-HELLENIC GAMES The pan-Hellenic holy struggles were one of the institutions of antiquity that helped as much as anyone else in the coherence and communication between the Greeks. These struggles gave the Greeks the opportunity to remember their common characteristics (language, religion, origin) and to forget for a while what separated them. Greeks not only from mainly Greece, but also from the coasts of Pontus, the cities of Central Asia, the colonies of Lower Italy and North Africa came to watch or take part in these games. The winners, in addition to the symbolic wreath, enjoyed honors, privileges and, above all, the respect of their fellow citizens. The games that emerged as pan-Hellenic and sacred were: Olympia, Pythia, Isthmia, and Nemea. The Olympia, which was held "in the most beautiful place in Greece", were the most
