Stoa Poikile
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The Stoa Poikile or Painted Portico was a Doric stoa erected around 460 BC on the north side of the Ancient Agora of Athens. It was one of the most famous sites in ancient Athens, owing its fame to th
Ruins of the western end of the Stoa Poikile, seen from the southwest.
The excavated area of the northwest corner of the Agora, from the south. At right, the Stoa Poikile; in the lower foreground, the Hellenistic gate; at left, the Temple of Aphrodite Urania.
Reconstruction of the painting of the Battle of Marathon in the Stoa Poikile, after Carl Robert, Hallisches Winckelmannsprogramm (1895).
Late Roman column base on top of the west pier of the Hellenistic gate
Zeno of Citium
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Zeno of Citium was a Hellenistic philosopher from Citium, Cyprus. He was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy, which he taught in Athens from about 300 BC.
Stoa Poikile
…From the fourth century BC onwards, philosophers often taught in the stoa. The homeless Cynic philosopher Crates spent his time there. His student, Zeno of Citium, was particularly closely associated with the stoa, where he taught from around 300 BC until his death c. 262 BC. The philosophical school that he…
Zeno of Citium. Bust in the Farnese collection, Naples. Photo by Paolo Monti, 1969.
Statue of Zeno of Citium in Larnaca
Modern bust of Zeno in Athens
Socrates, Plato, Pythagoras, Aristotle & Zeno by François Pouqueville