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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 277 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DINOCRATES  , a

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great and
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original
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Greek architect, of the
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age of
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Alexander the Great . He tried to captivate the ambitious
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fancy of that
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king with a
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design for
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carving
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Mount
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Athos into a gigantic seated statue . This
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plan was not carried out, but Dino-
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crates designed for Alexander the plan of the new
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city of
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Alexandria, and constructed the vast funeral pyre of
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Hephaestion . Alexandria was, like
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Peiraeus and
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Rhodes (see
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HIPPODAMUS), built on a
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regular plan; the streets of most earlier towns being narrow and confused .

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