Classical Studies 3904G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hippodamus Of Miletus, Grid Plan, Villanovan Culture

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 3904G
• Professor: Beth Greene

Document Summary

Known as the hippodamian plan: grid plan for a city. Problems: greeks, etruscans and romans lived together or in very close contact in many cities in central southern italy. Veii: not in the bay, settled from the villanovan period onward. 900 700 bce: major etruscan settlement just north of rome. In the 6th and 5th centuries there was a substantial system of street drains and gutters to deal with flooding: destroyed by rome in 396 bce. The city had a fully gridded plan. Paestum / poseidonia: fully gridded city in the greek period before becoming a roman colony, greek temples to hera. 1st temple to hera circa 550 bce. 2nd temple to hera circa 460 bce. Oscan city appears not to have been a planned system: original settlement in the southwest. Some of the streets turn off of the angle of the gates: gates and the roads were built at different times. Greek: grid plan, street system, zoning.