Portico is often used in architecture to describe a porch with columns, indicating a building's entrance.

Architectural Element

In ancient times, porticos were common in Greek and Roman architecture, representing grandeur and elegance.

Cultural Significance

A portico can serve as a gathering space, providing shelter while connecting to the outdoors.

Meeting Place

 but the greek fascination doesn't mean they were totally comfortable with the idea of female warriors especially in their own culture amazons couldn't be any more different from the greek women they knew proper greek women were expected to stay indoors most of their lives or in the you know portico a protected

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 nude bathing with men present. Where they have no place is where the men in the Forum, in the Law Court, or in the Senate House. Their place in public is in the porticos with gardens, with sculpture,

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 they've had a great portico in the front researchers the door to tomorrow it made a big impression on me and many other people I left the public sector in the late 50s and went and worked in private