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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- It was also painted by the ancient Gr**** painter Polygnotus on the Stoa Poikile in Athens in 460 BC, while the ancient traveler and geographer Pausanias...
- 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...
- 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...
- Colonnade of Zeus Eleutherios, on the west side of the Agora; the Stoa Poikile, so called because it was adorned with fresco painting of the Battle of...