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 senate was seated in the arcade or stoa in the market-place, since the Cadmeia was in possession of the women who were celebrating the Thesmophoria.

From Hellenica by Dakyns, Henry Graham

The stoa may be defined as a building having an open range of columns on at least one side.

From A History of Greek Art by Tarbell, Frank Bigelow

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