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 | | by Zeno of Citium, and so called from the Stoa or painted, corridor (oroand iroucLX~) on the north side of the market-place at Athens, which, after its restoration by Cimon, the celebrated painter Polygnotus had adorned with frescoes representing scenes from the Trojan War. |
 | | Such lands as Cyprus, Cilicia and Syria, such cities as Citium, Soli, Hcraclea in Pontus, Sidon,~ Carthage, Seleucia on the Tigris, Apamea by the Orontes, furnished the school with its scholars and presidents; Tarsus, Rhodes and Alexandria became famous as its university towns. |
 | | Properly therefore it stands in marked antithesis to that fairest growth of old Hellas, the Academy, which saw the Stoa rise and fallthe one the typical school of Greece and Greek intellect, the other of the Hellenized East, and, under the early Roman Empire, of the whole civilized world. |
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