Значение HIPPODAMUS OF MILETUS в Справочнике Персонажей и культовых объектов греческой мифологии

Hippodamus of Miletus (sometimes also called Hippodamos), was a Greek architect of the 5th century BC. He created city plans that featured order and regularity, in contrast to the more common intricacy and confusion common to cities such as Athens. For Pericles he planned the arrangement of the harbour-town Peiraeus at Athens. When the Athenians founded Thurii in Italy he accompanied the colony as architect, and afterwards, in 408 BC, he superintended the building of the new city of Rhodes. His grid plans consisted of series of broad, straight streets, cutting one another at right angles.