[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 16 2003: Stoa Poikile

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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 ... (Suidas) "Pass on in thought to the Stoa Poikile too -- the memorials of all your great deeds are set up in the Agora." (Aischines, vs. 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. . . ."