2013-11-24
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Have you guys ever heard of Ostoa?
Ostoa was a common structure, an ancient Greek architecture that served a wide variety of purposes.
But most of the time it was just a place that people gathered.
Just imagine two huge lines of big, Doric, or Ionian columns holding up a massive roof,
usually hundreds of feet long and positioned right in the middle of town,
offering people a little shelter from the elements while they do their business.
In Ostoa, sometimes merchants would set up shop.
Sometimes artists would lay out their artwork for people to see.
Sometimes people would just hold a gathering in honor of some local prestigious war hero.
But in the second century AD, there was a guy named Diogenes, and he was incredibly rich.
The richest man in his town of Oinoada.
The Mitt Romney of his town of Oinoada.
He was so rich and believed so much in the philosophy of a guy named Epicurus, who lived almost 500 years before him,
that he paid to have a giant wall built onto this stoa that was right in the middle of town.