- The Stoa
Poikile (Ancient Gr****: ἡ ποικίλη στοά, hē
poikílē stoá) or
Painted Portico was a
Doric stoa (a
covered walkway or portico)
erected around 460...
- use was for a commercial, ****embly, or
residential gathering place. Stoa
Poikile (Painted stoa), a
building built in the 5th
century B.C. used
purely for...
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writes that
although Miltiades wanted his name to be
written in the Stoa
Poikile, the
Athenians refused.
Instead of
writing his name they had him painted...
- The name of the
Stoic school of
philosophy derives from "stoa". Stoa
Poikile, "Painted Porch", from
which the
philosophy Stoicism takes its name Stoa...
-
began teaching in the
colonnade in the
Agora of
Athens known as the Stoa
Poikile (Gr**** Στοὰ Ποικίλη) in 301 BC. His
disciples were
initially called "Zenonians...
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bronze statue of
Hermes Agoraios and then goes on to
describe the Stoa
Poikile. The
remains usually identified with the
sanctuary are
located at the northwestern...
- portra****
among the
Athenian gods and
heroes on the wall-paintings of the Stoa
Poikile. The
Athenians erected a
statue in
honour of Callimachus, the "Nike of...
- to what it
means to be a Stoic. The name
Stoicism derives from the Stoa
Poikile (Ancient Gr****: ἡ ποικίλη στοά), or "painted porch", a
colonnade decorated...
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against the Persians, and
indeed he was
depicted in the
mural of the Stoa
Poikile fighting for the Athenians,
along with the
twelve Olympian gods and other...
- Hephaestus’s
sanctuary to
other civic monuments (the
nearby Royal Stoa and Stoa
Poikile also
celebrated Athens’s
heroes and victories), the
temple proclaimed Athens’s...
