Chariot, Olympic Games Issue Tokyo, Republic of Cyprus

Chariot, Olympic Games Issue Tokyo, Republic of Cyprus

Postage stamps--Cyprus--History

Γραμματόσημα--Κύπρος--Ιστορία

In ancient Egypt and Babylon, and to a lesser extent in Crete, sports was intended more for the enjoyment of the participating athletes and the public than an exercise in body drill. Such intentions are manifest even today in the spectacles of the circus and the bullfights. In ancient Greece, sporting contests were meant to achieve the human ideal wherein Man and Nature interrelated; just as in education where one half of the population educates the other half, starting from the mothers at home, the teachers at school, the specialists in their own fields of specialization and employers in their organizations. Education in its early stages equips a person with skills and competences achievable by exercise, whilst nurtured education creates culture and beauty. It was therefore considered desirable that a person should allocate time to cultivate his intellectual, spiritual and physical culture, and the latter combined with the former two ensured a healthy mind in a healthy body. Physical exercise partially satisfied the needs of a nation, and in turn led to sports and sporting contests which formed the pyramidal base of the ""Ideal"" and the pinnacle of the Olympic Games which were first held in 776 B.C.

Cyprus Post, Republic of Cyprus

Κυπριακά Ταχυδρομεία, Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία

Cyprus Post, Republic of Cyprus

Κυπριακά Ταχυδρομεία, Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία

Library of Cyprus University of Technology

Digital Heritage Research Lab of Cyprus University of Technology

6th July 1964

Designer: A. Tassos

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OLIMPIC -1964 -75M

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