Plan of the city rebuilt after 479 BC (A. von Gerkan). Von Gerkan studied Miletus at the beginning of the 20th century and drew this plan of the city, which became canonical in all studies of Greek architecture. Naturally, the layout was attributed to Hippodamus of Miletus, an architect whose work is recorded by Aristotle. For von Gerkan, this plan corresponded to the planning of the city when it was freed from the Persians, at the beginning of the 5th century BC. However, it is now known that much of this plan was imagined by von Gerkan on the basis of the remains he checked on site, which are mostly of the Roman or Hellenistic period.
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