HIPPODAMUS  , of

Miletus, a Greek architect of the 5th century B.C . It was he who introduced order and regularity into the planning of cities, in place of the previous intricacy and confusion . 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 B.C., he superintended the building of the new city of Rhodes . His schemes consisted of series of broad, straight streets, cutting one another at right angles .