Classical Studies 2700A/B Lecture Notes - Bow Drill, Greek Drachma, Hippodamus Of Miletus
27 Jan 2014
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The grid system has mitigating factors greek cities were small by our standards, and placing thing within the gridiron framework was sufficiently varied and the topography varied that, monotony was avoided. There was a famous figure in greek town panning hippodamus which means trailer of horses born around 500bc, and may have developed ideas of redeveloping his hometown in 479bc. He wanted to rebuild miletus (his home town) because persian sacked the place in 494bc. He planned the developed the port city of piraeus in athens (may have founded other cities in. We didn"t know a lot about him but we knew his ideas were influential. In 479bc the athenians came back to their sacked city of miletus (like it was before more or less). The rebuilding was done in two stages and the central area (market place, political building and gymnasium) was originally at the south end of the town and then it was moved it to the central.
