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a covered walkway where ancient greeks did their thinking in the shade.
means a long roofed colonnade, open on one side, used in ancient greece for markets, gatherings, and philosophy lectures.
from from the greek word for portico or roofed colonnade; the stoa poikile, the painted porch in athens, gave its name to an entire school of philosophy that met there.
gave us stoicismzeno taught under the stoa poikile around 300 bce
multi-purpose spacehosted shops, courts, and philosophy all at once
architectural exportromans copied it and called it a portico