Handling virtues: understanding of sports culture in ancient Greek Handling virtues: understanding of sports culture in ancient Greek ——Comments and Introduction of Themos Goulionis' sports thoughts Wang Chunjie; Liu Xinran Physical Education Institute, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui 241000 Physical Education Institute, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330000 Abstract: this article comments and introduces the book The original ecology of the Olympic Sports written by Themos Goulionis using the methods of literature consultation, so as to find out the value of sports thoughts from the book. We find sports had already had important historical status during the original period of Greek social civilization development, which played a decisive role in guiding to the formation of social norms, national spirits and moral practice. Sports culture is different from other culture forms of human society, but it exists in any other culture forms. It formed a huge, complete and diverse cultural system. According to the perspective of sports culture of Themos Goulionis and proceeded from ideological roots of Greek sports, this study aims to find the connotation of the ancient Greek’s sports civilization and to make a reference for today’s sports thoughts and practice. Keywords: sports; sports culture; virtue; games; Offensive