Stoa Poikile

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Stoa Poikile

The Stoa Poikile (Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
: ? p?????? st??) or Painted Porch, originally called the Porch of Peisianax (Ancient Greek: ? ?e?s?a???te??? st??), was erected during the 5th century BC and was located on the north side of the Ancient Agora of Athens

Ancient Agora of Athens

The Ancient Agora of Athens is the best-known example of agora, located in Ancient Athens, Greece....
. The Stoa

Stoa

Stoa in Architecture of Ancient Greece; covered walkways or porticos, commonly for public usage. Early stoae were open at the entrance with columns lining the side of the building, creating an enveloping, protective atmosphere and were usually of Doric order....
was the location from which Zeno of Citium

Zeno of Citium

Zeno of Citium was a Greeks philosopher from Citium , Cyprus. Zeno was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy which he taught in Athens, from about 300 BC....
taught Stoicism

Stoicism

Stoicism was a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early third century B.C. The stoics considered passionate emotions to be the result of errors in judgment, and that a Sage , or person of "moral and intellectual perfection," would not have such emotions....
. The philosophical school of Stoicism takes its name having first been expounded here, having derived from the word "stoa".

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The Stoa Poikile (Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek

Ancient Agora of Athens

The Ancient Agora of Athens is the best-known example of agora, located in Ancient Athens, Greece....
. The Stoa

Stoa

Zeno of Citium

Zeno of Citium was a Greeks philosopher from Citium , Cyprus. Zeno was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy which he taught in Athens, from about 300 BC....
taught Stoicism

Stoicism

Micon

Micon the Younger of Athens was an Ancient Greece painter and sculptor from the middle of the 5th century BC. He was closely associated with Polygnotus of Thasos, in conjunction with whom he adorned the Stoa poikile , at Athens, with paintings of the Battle of Marathon and other battles....
in collaboration with Polygnotos of Thasos

Polygnotus

Polygnotus was an ancient Greek painter from the middle of the 5th century BC, son of Aglaophon. He was a native of Thasos, but was adopted by the Athenians, and admitted to their citizenship....
; both artists worked around the mid-5th Century BC. In the time of Pausanias

Pausanias (geographer)

Pausanias was a Roman Greece traveller and geographer of the 2nd century AD, who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius....
(2nd century AD), the paintings in the Stoa included:

The Battle of Oenoe
Oenoe

Oenoe , also written Oinoi or Oene, referred to several cities in ancient Greece:*Oenoe,a town in Kastoria prefecture,modern oinoi...
(author unknown)
Amazonomachy
Amazonomachy

An Amazonomachy was a portrayal of legendary battle between Greeks and Amazons. The mythic all-female warrior society succumbed to the likes of Heracles and Theseus, and symbolised the triumph of Greek civilization over the barbarian....
by Micon
Micon

Micon the Younger of Athens was an Ancient Greece painter and sculptor from the middle of the 5th century BC. He was closely associated with Polygnotus of Thasos, in conjunction with whom he adorned the Stoa poikile , at Athens, with paintings of the Battle of Marathon and other battles....
The taking of Troy
Troy

Troy is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer....
by Polygnotus
Polygnotus

Polygnotus was an ancient Greek painter from the middle of the 5th century BC, son of Aglaophon. He was a native of Thasos, but was adopted by the Athenians, and admitted to their citizenship....
The Battle of Marathon
Battle of Marathon

The Battle of Marathon, Greece during the Greco-Persian Wars took place in 490 BC and was the culmination of the first attempt by the Achaemenid Empire of Persia, under King Darius I, to subjugate Ancient Greece....
by Panaenus
Panaenus

Panaenus, brother of Pheidias, was an Art in Ancient Greece Painting who worked in conjunction with Polygnotus and Micon at Athens. The painting of the Battle of Marathon in the Stoa poikile is ascribed to Panaenus, and also to Micon and Polygnotus who may have assisted him....
(also ascribed to Micon and Polygnotus who may have assisted in the work)

What is striking about the Stoa Poikile is the contrast between the mythical and historical events portrayed. Depictions of Theseus' victory over the Amazonians and the Fall of Troy contrast sharply with the portrayal of the Battle of Oinoe — the first important Athenian victory over Sparta

Sparta

Sparta was a city-state in ancient Greece, situated on the Eurotas River in the southern part of the Peloponnese. From circa 650 BC it rose to become the dominant military power in the region and as such was recognized as the overall leader of the combined Greek forces during the Greco-Persian Wars....
— and the Battle of Marathon

Battle of Marathon

The Battle of Marathon, Greece during the Greco-Persian Wars took place in 490 BC and was the culmination of the first attempt by the Achaemenid Empire of Persia, under King Darius I, to subjugate Ancient Greece....
. The Battle of Marathon features most predominantly and as such, displays the confidence and identity of the Athenians in the wake of the Persian Wars, particularly when compared to the two great mythical victories identified above.

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