[Agora Publication Page] Agora 3, s. 41, p. 31

C. Hignett, Athenian Constitution, pp. 18ff. Painted Stoa. Harpokratian, Basileios. Lucian, Piscator, Iuppiter Tragoedus. Pausanias, I, 15. Melanthios in Plutach, Kimon, and p. 216. Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae ... Agora 3 31 ... 2nd-3rd A.D ... Harpokration, Hermai ... Harpokration, Polygnotos ... Harpokration, Mikon

[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 16 2003: Stoa Poikile

http://agathe.gr/guide/stoa_poikile.html

Stoa Poikile Across modern Hadrian Street are the most recent excavations (2003), along the north side of the square. Here have been revealed the remains of another large stoa, identified on the basis ... Most famous, perhaps, was a picture of the battle of Marathon (490 B.C.) by Polygnotos. By A.D. 400 the paintings had disappeared, taken down by a Roman proconsul according to the Bishop Synesios, who was bitterly disappointed not to see them during his visit to Athens. ... Ktesiphon 186) "Of Polygnotos the painter, a Thasian by birth, son and pupil of Aglaophon, given Athenian citizenship when he painted free of charge the Stoa Poikile. . . ." (Harpokration)