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Hippodamus

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Hippodamus (lived 5th century BC)

Greek architect and town planner from Miletus. He was responsible for laying out the Athenian port of Peiraias. His reputation rests on the ‘Hippodamian’ design of criss-crossed streets. He also laid out the city of Rhodes.



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So the Athenians, when they were founding their model new colony at Thurii, employed Hippodamus of Miletus, whom Aristotle mentions in Book II, as the best expert in town-planning, to plan the streets of the city, and Protagoras as the best expert in law-making, to give the city its laws.
A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context
Diomed son of Tydeus slew them both and stripped them of their armour, while Ulysses killed Hippodamus and Hypeirochus.
The Iliad by Homer View in context
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