(School of Education,Beijing Sport University,Beijing 100084,China) Abstract: By applying theories and methods such as knowledge archeology, history analysis and literature herme-neutics etc, and based on people’s understanding of the body, the authors probed into the course of development of physical education ideology from ancient Greece to the Middle Ages in Europe: the belief of natural order in physi-cal education ideology in the early period of ancient Greece; the pursuit of life wholeness in physical education ide-ology from the archaic period to the hellenistic period; the realization of secular value in physical education ideol-ogy in ancient Rome; the shackles of religious theology in physical education ideology in the Middle Ages in Europe. In the mean time, there are the following common characteristics: from the perspective of the production of physical education ideology, it embodies in the way the body enter into the world; from the perspective of the ten-dency of physical education ideology, it bases on morality as the value orientation of physical education; from the perspective of the way of presentation of physical education ideology, it bodies in the undifferentiation of physical education cognition; from the perspective of the content of physical education ideology, it embodies in the unifica-tion of physical education theories and practice. The evolution of physical education ideology from ancient Greece to the Middle Ages in Europe, provides the following historical reference for and inspirations to the physical educa-tion ideology system with Chinese features: activating and returning to human nature is the origin for constructing the physical education ideology system with Chinese features; innovating on and responding to the practical needs of physical education is the growing point for constructing the physical education ideology system with Chinese features; the fusion and reference of different ideologies is the important driving force for the development of physical education ideology with Chinese features. Key words: physical education ideology;ancient Greece with religious theology;ancient Rome;Middle Ages in Europe
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