Hippodamian grid

Hippodamian plan
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Hippodamus pronunciation

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Hippo'damus

（*(Ippo/damos: the etymological origin of the name is no doubt the same as that of the Homeric word ἱππόδαμος, which so frequently occurs as an epithet, and once as a proper name, Il. 11.335; Aristophanes, however, Equit.327, uses it with the ᾶ, as if it were a Doric form from λ̔́πποςand δῆμος; but this must be by way of some joke, for we cannot suppose such an absurd compound to have existed as a proper name.) Hippodamus was a most distinguished Greek architect. a native of Miletus, and the son of Euryphon or Eurycoön. His fame rests on his construction, not of single buildings, but of whole cities. His first great work was the town of Peiraeeus, which Themistocles had made a tolerably secure port for Athens, but which was first formed into a regularly-planned town by Hippodamus, under the auspices of Pericles. It has been clearly shown by Müller (Attika,in Ersch and Gruber's Encyclopädie,vol. vi. p. 222, and Dorier,vol. ii. p. 251, 2nd edit.) that this work must be referred to the age of Pericles, not to that of Themistocles. The change which Hippodamus in

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Hippodamus of Miletus

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Hippodamus of Miletus
Greek architect and philosopher (480 – 408 BC)
Hippodamus of Miletus (; Greek: Ἱππόδαμος ὁ Μιλήσιος, Hippodamos ho Milesios; c.480–408 BC)^[1] was an ancient Greekarchitect, urban planner, physician, mathematician, meteorologist and philosopher, who is considered to be "the father of European urban planning",^[2] and the namesake of the "Hippodamian plan" (grid plan) of city layout, although rectangular city plans were in use by the ancient Greeks as early as the 8th c. BC.
Hippodamus was born in Miletus and lived during the 5th century BC. His father was Euryphon. According to Aristotle, Hippodamus was the first author who wrote upon the theory of government, without any knowledge of practical affairs.^[3]
His plans of Greek cities were characterised by order and regularity in contrast to the intricacy and confusion common to cities of that period, even Athens. He is seen as the originator of the idea that a town plan might formally embody and clarify a rational social order. However, as cities were built with orth