stoa

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

Stoics, the disciples of Zeno; derived their name from the stoa or portico in Athens where their master taught and founded the school in 340 B.C.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

The Poecile was a portico; portico in Greek is stoa, hence the name of Stoic.

From Initiation into Philosophy by Émile Faguet

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 Edward Washburn Hopkins

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 Frank Bigelow Tarbell