Composition of olive oils

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Greece and Olive Tree Tradition-Health-Religion
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Greece
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A field with Olive Trees-A picture on the walls
of Minoan Palaces of Knossos
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The cultivation of Olive Tree in ancient times
Collection of the olives using sticks and hands
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Whoever has wheat ,wine and olive oil in the
jar is rich and blessed by god Legend from the
island of Crete
Huge clay containers were used for the storage in
appropriate places of olive oil.
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Present ways of collecting olives
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Separation of the branches from the olives
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Preparation of the olive oil
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Centrifugation Spinning the paste round at high
speed to separate oil
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Competition between God Poseidon and Goddess
Athena.
Panagia the Elaiovritissa
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Greek athletes use olive oil on their skin.
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Use of the instrument strigil for cleaning.
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Soap made out of oil for cleaning.
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Lamp for lightening.
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Bless the ground that feeds olive tree Bless the
rain that comes from heaven and is watering the
olive tree Bless three times more the product of
the olive tree, the olive oil, because it is
lightening in front of icons and feeds poor
people free translation from a poem of Ioannis
Polemis
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Olive oil is used as a therapeutic agent in
ancient years.
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Olive oil and medicine
Good Samaritan (Jesus Christ) treats wounded
person (people). Luke, ??, 34
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Olive oil, an excellent food
 To the courteous and honorable from God human
being was given the excellent food bread, wine
and olive oil. Bread to support and strengthen
the heart, wine to delight the soul and olive oil
to please and cure the body from the painful
hardening.   Efsevios, On the inscriptions of
psalms 23, 1273,47-55
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Olive oil and baptism
Olive oil is used in the sacrament of baptism.
The new baptised is released from the power of
devil.
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Marriage
In 1830, Michaud in his visit of the island of
Cyprus realizes that the crowns of people to be
married are made with branches of olives. People
of Cyprus are calling the Sunday before the
Resurrection, the Sunday of Olive Tree because
according to their custom they bring branches of
olive tree to be blessed.
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Olive Oil a symbol of immortality
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Olive Tree and Art
The collection of olives in the island of
Mytilini Theofilos, 1933
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• Olive Tree
• I am not a fair, sweet-smelling
• rose or citron-tree
• I blur the eyes of soul
• Kostis Palamas

Knossos, Crete 1600-1425 p.?.
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Olive tree, a symbol of logevity
Your age, does not prevent you from becoming
richer and richer every year! Aristos Kampanis
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Olive tree and labour
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Olive tree, the relaxing tree
Jesus Christ before crucifixion prayed under the
shadow of olive tree.  
Agony in the garden El Greco
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Olive tree, the daughter of the sun and light
Olive tree loves the blue sky.
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Olive tree, a shady tree
Olive tree filters the light and it is a shady
tree.
Olive trees G. Zoumpoulakis
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Olive tree, a symbol of peace, happiness and
gladness
The pigeon returns to Noah with a branch of olive
tree and brings the message that the storm is
ended.
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The olive oil is the magic golden natural fruit
which as the umbilical cord joins the tradition
of the past of our existence, with the sacred
symbols of our civilisation. It feeds us and
introduces us to its supreme, simple, pure and
dismantle taste.
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Molecular Analysis Lab. Institute of Organic and
Pharmaceutical Chemistry National Hellenic
Research Foundation
Laboratory personel Errika Zervou, Panagiotis
Zoumpoulakis (Narrator), Agni Kapou
(Narrator), Ioanna Kyrikou, Ioanna
Ntaliani, Eleni Siapi Supervisor Dr. Thomas
Mavromoustakos