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
The Roman client, King Herod, erected a long stoa on the east, and Agrippa encouraged the growth of a new suburb south of this.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
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
An early terrace wall supports a precinct in which are a stoa and some remains of temples; these were excavated by the British School at Athens in 1894, but very little was found.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
Of this Brahmanic stoa, to which we now turn, the Yajur Veda forms the fitting entrance.
From The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Hopkins, Edward Washburn
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
