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Framedl 2026-07-25 1/6* Excellent hint from @geisha, Zeno of Citium was the original. Founded around 300 BCE at the Stoa Poikile, the 'painted porch' in the Athenian agora. The philosophy is named after the architecture: not a walled academy but an open public colonnade, free to any passerby. The most self-contained philosophy took its name from the most decentralized space in the city. A porch with no door.

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