stoae

The Stoics, with their stern fatalism, derived their name from the _stoae_, or porticos; the Peripatetics imparted their ambulatory instructions under the plane-trees of the Lyceum -- and Plato reasoned in the Academy, which he held with his school, and into which no ungeometrical mind was to enter.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 Various

The victorious Roman Generals, Marcellus, Scipio, Flamininus, Mummius, and others, brought to the imperial city, to adorn their triumphs, an immense quantity of Greek sculpture and paintings, of which they robbed the great storehouses of works of art in the temples and stoae of

The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Various

There, under the cool marble stoae, religious gatherings took place, merchants sold their wares and artists displayed their handiwork.

Woolly Days 2008