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The Greek Hippodamus of Miletus ( c. 407 BC ) has been dubbed the " Father of City Planning " for his design of Miletus ; the Hippodamian, or grid plan, was the basis for subsequent Greek and Roman cities.
Ancient examples of carefully planned and designed cities exist in Asia, India, Africa, Europe and the Americas, and are particularly well-known within Classical Chinese, Roman and Greek cultures ( see Hippodamus of Miletus ).
Hippodamus of Miletus ( or Hippodamos, Greek: Ἱππόδαμος ὁ Μιλήσιος ) ( 498 BC — 408 BC ) was an ancient Greek architect, urban planner, physician, mathematician, meteorologist and philosopher and is considered to be the “ father ” of urban planning, the namesake of Hippodamian plan of city layouts ( grid plan ).
However, it slowly gained primacy through the work of Hippodamus of Miletus, who slowly planned and replanned many Greek cities in accordance with this form.
Hippodamus of Miletos, known as the “ father of urban planning ”, developed Greek cities from 498 BC to 408 BC that created order by using grid plans that mapped the city.

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With the loss of the study of ancient Greek in the early medieval Latin West, Aristotle was practically unknown there from c. AD 600 to c. 1100 except through the Latin translation of the Organon made by Boethius.
The Dying Gaul c. 230 BC, a Roman copy of a Greek statue commemorating the victory over the Celtic Galatia ns in Anatolia.
Alcaeus ( Alkaios, ) of Mytilene ( c. 620 – 6th century BC ), Greek lyric poet from Lesbos Island who is credited with inventing the Alcaic verse.
Alexis (, c. 394 BCc. 288 BC ) was a Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy period.
Ammonius Hermiae (; c. 440-c. 520 ) was a Greek philosopher, and the son of the Neoplatonist philosophers Hermias and Aedesia.
Amyntas I ( Greek: Ἀμύντας Aʹ, c. 540 – 498 BC ) was a king of Macedon.
Anaxagoras (, " lord of the assembly "; c. 500 – 428 BC ) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher.
In early manhood ( c. 464 – 461 BC ) he went to Athens, which was rapidly becoming the centre of Greek culture.
Anaxarchus (; ; c. 380-c. 320 BC ) was a Greek philosopher of the school of Democritus.
Anaximenes () of Lampsacus ( c. 380 – 320 BC ) was a Greek rhetorician and historian.
c. 60 BC ) was a Greek philosopher from Rhodes who was also the eleventh scholarch of the Peripatetic school.
* Andronicus of Cyrrhus ( c. 100 BC ), Greek astronomer
* Andronicus of Rhodes ( c. 70 BC ), Greek philosopher
Anthemius of Tralles ( c. 474 – before 558 ; ) was a Greek professor of Geometry in Constantinople ( present-day Istanbul in Turkey ) and architect, who collaborated with Isidore of Miletus to build the church of Hagia Sophia by the order of Justinian I. Anthemius came from an educated family, one of five sons of Stephanus of Tralles, a physician.
Aeschylus (, Aiskhulos ; c. 525 / 524 BCc. 456 / 455 BC ) was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.
There are three main versions of the Book of Daniel: the twelve-chapter version preserved in the Masoretic text and two longer Greek versions ( the original Septuagint version, c. 100 BCE, and the later Theodotion version, c. 2nd century CE ).
Eusebius ( c. 263 – 339 ) was inclined to class the Apocalypse with the accepted books but also listed it in the Antilegomena, with his own reservation for identification of John of Patmos with John the Apostle, pointing out there were large differences in Greek skill and styles between the Gospel of John, which he attributed to John the Apostle, and the Revelation.
The earliest recorded use of the terms Christianity ( Greek ) and Catholic ( Greek ), dates to this period, the 2nd century, attributed to Ignatius of Antioch c. 107.

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Within this notion clarity is possible, but for us who are neither Greek nor Jansenist there is not such clarity.
I have chosen to use the word `` mimesis '' in its Christian rather than its classic implications and to discover in the concrete forms of both art and myth powers of theological expression which, as in the Christian mind, are the direct consequence of involvement in historical experience, which are not reserved, as in the Greek mind, only to moments of theoretical reflection.
While studying at the seminary in Andover, Adoniram had been working on a New Testament translation from the original Greek.
This was the Greek word most often translated as `` baptism ''.
The more Adoniram looked at the Greek word for baptism, the more unhappy he became over its true meaning.
Hegel's profound admiration for the insights of the Greek tragedians indicates a broad channel of classical influence upon nineteenth-century philosophy.
Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.
Greek phone service is worse than French, so that it was to be some little time before contact of any sort was established.
My other nugget of art and architectural knowledge -- besides remembering that it was Ghiberti who designed the doors of the baptistery in Florence -- is the three styles of Greek columns.
We were struck by the notable absence of banana skins and beer cans, but just so that we wouldn't go overboard on Greek refinement, perfection was side-stepped by a couple of braying portable radios.
Greek boys and girls also go for rock-and-roll, and the stations most tuned to are those carrying United States overseas programs.
Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.
In the imagination of the nineteenth century the Greek tragedians and Shakespeare stand side by side, their affinity transcending all the immense contrarieties of historical circumstance, religious belief, and poetic form.
The word `` tragedy '' encloses for us in a single span both the Greek and the Elizabethan example.
In Greek tragedy as in Shakespeare, mortal actions are encompassed by forces which transcend man.
The shadows cast by the personages of Greek and Shakespearean drama lengthen into a greater darkness.
Greek and Elizabethan life and, to a certain extent, the life of Versailles shared this character of intense `` publicity ''.
I have said before how difficult it is to make any precise statements with regard to the character of the Greek and Elizabethan public.
From this action sprang the idea of somehow uniting Greek and Shakespearean drama into a new total form, capable of restoring to life the ancient moral and poetic responses.
On the narrower ground of poetic form, he felt that in the drama of the future the Greek conception of tragic fate should be joined to the Shakespearean vision of tragic will.
At Lee Simonson's house, I had dined with Edith Hamilton, the nonogenarian rationalist and the charming scholar who had a great popular success with The Greek Way.
Milton was required to absorb and display an intensive and accurate knowledge of Latin grammar, logic-rhetoric, ethics, physics or natural philosophy, metaphysics, and Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.
Those famous lines of the Greek Anthology with which a fading beauty dedicates her mirror at the shrine of a goddess reveal a wise attitude: `` Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see ''.
Discoveries recently made of old Biblical manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek and other ancient writings, some by the early church fathers, in themselves called for a restudy of the Bible.
But the firm has recognized the tight dollar and the tourist's desire to visit the `` smaller, less-traveled and relatively inexpensive countries '', and is now prepared to teach modern Greek and Portuguese through recordings.

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