stoa

(noun)

In Ancient Greece, a walkway with a roof supported by colonnades, often with a wall on one side; a portico.

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Examples of stoa in the following topics:

  • The Agora

    • The stoa served not only civic function but also a religious function due its function as an altar to the god.
    • One such stoa is the Basileios Stoa, or Royal Stoa, which housed the Areios Pagos council.
    • The Areios Pagos council was in charge of the city's religious affairs and crimes, and the stoa was also used to house copies of the Athenian law.
    • Across the agora from the Basileios Stoa was the Heliaea, the supreme court of ancient Athens.
    • Plan of the Athenian Agora. 1 Peristyle Court 2 Mint 3 Enneacrounos 4 South stoa 5 Heliaea 6 Strategeion 7 Colonos Agoraios 8 Tholos 9 Agora stone 10 Monument of the Eponymous Heroes 11 Old Bouleuterion 12 New Bouleuterion 13 Temple of Hephaestus (Hephaestion) 14 Temple of Apollo Patroos 15 Stoa of Zeus 16 Altar of the Twelve Gods 17 Royal stoa 18 Temple of Aphrodite Urania 19 Stoa of Hermes 20 Stoa poikile

  • Architecture in the Hellenistic Period

    • A stoa, or a covered walkway or portico, was used to bind agorae and other public spaces.
    • Both the stoa and the agora were used by merchants, artists, religious festivals, judicial courts, and civic administrations.
    • The Stoa of Attalos (c. 150 BCE) in Athens was built in the Agora, under the patronage of King Attalos II of Pergamon.
    • Describe the characteristics of Hellenistic architecture, including stoas, the Corinthian order, and the use of theatricality.

  • Urban Planning in the Greek High Classical Period

    • Its colonnaded stoa bounded the public space to the north.
    • North of the stoa was the bouleuterion, the assembly hall, and a small theatre.

  • Architecture of the Early Christian Church

    • It was ringed with a colonnade or arcade, like the stoa or peristyle that was its ancestor, or like the cloister that was its descendant.

  • The Acropolis

    • The buildings include: (1) Parthenon (2) Old Temple of Athena (3) Erechtheum (4) Statue of Athena Promachos (5) Propylaea (6) Temple of Athena Nike (7) Eleusinion (8) Sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia or Brauroneion (9) Chalkotheke (10) Pandroseion (11) Arrephorion (12) Altar of Athena (13) Sanctuary of Zeus Polieus (14) Sanctuary of Pandion (15) Odeon of Herodes Atticus (16) Stoa of Eumenes (17) Sanctuary of Asclepius or Asclepieion (18) Theatre of Dionysus Eleuthereus (19) Odeon of Pericles (20) Temenos of Dionysus Eleuthereus (21) Aglaureion