stoa

This portico became famous in Athens, and was called (Stoa)—-the Porch.

From this Stoa the school derived its name, the students being called the Stoics.

There is an evident development in the Roman law toward a more humane conception of slavery; this is due to the Stoa.

Many of his words have parallels in the Jewish literature as well as in the writings of the Stoa.

He founded his school a year or two before Zeno founded the Stoa, so that the two schools from the first ran parallel in time.