stoa
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The Stoics were so named because Zeno instructed his students in the stoa poikile, or “painted porch” in the Athenian agora.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
After twenty years of preparation, he opened a school in the stoa or porch in Athens, from which his doctrine and disciples have received their name.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William
The Stoics were so called, because their founder gave his lectures in the Athenian stoa, or porch, called “Pœ´cilê.”
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Finally, immediately to the north of this western stoa there is an extensive house of Roman times also connected with baths.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various
Later on Ptolemy Philadelphus gave Athens the Ptolem�um near the Theseum, Attalus I the stoa north-east of the Agora, Eumenes II that near the great theatre, and Antiochus Epiphanes carried on the Olympieum.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
One of six stoas in the Agora, the Painted Stoa received its popular name when the greatest artists of the time were commissioned to decorate it with murals depicting great mythical and historical battles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus the most famous works of Polygnotus adorned the inner faces of the walls of temples and stoas.
From A History of Greek Art by Tarbell, Frank Bigelow
