Zeno of Citium

• Zeno of Citium (335-264 BCE) was the Founder of the School of Stoicism in Athens, Greece.
• Chrysippus (c.290-207 BCE) was the third Master of the Stoa after Zeno.

The Stoa Poikile

• Zeno taught from the ‘Stoa Poikile’, meaning ‘Painted Porch’, on the north side of the Ancient Agora of Athens.
• A Stoa was the Porch of a building, either a covered walkway or Portico.
• The Entrance to the Stoa was open with Doric columns lining the sides creating covered walkways.
• It was decorated by Paintings of the Fall of Troy and the Battle of Marathon with statues of heroic figures.
• It was destroyed by the Heruls during the Sack of Athens in 276 CE.

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