According to Omiros, the olive oil or the “liquid gold”, during ancient times it was not merely a food, but rather it represented health, strength, power and it was regarded as a medicine, a source of magic and admiration as well. Specifically, in ancient Greece, athletes salved it all over their bodies, as they believed it would give them strength and luck. Moreover, fighters put olive oil in nobles’ heads and purred drops of it on dead peoples’ bones, as it was an emblem of consecration and purity.

Olive oil cultivation is lost deep-down in the centuries.

Fossils of olives have been found in Livorno in Italy, that date 20 million years back, whereas olive cultivation is estimated to have begun in the wider Mediterranean basin almost 7000 years ago. As far as Greece is concerned, the first testimonies for the olive’s cultivation in the Greek area, according to archeological findings, commenced in Crete, 3500 years ago.