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The Hellenistic city of Asia Minor is well Priene, restored in the second half of IV century BC. It had a fortified acropolis. At the bottom of the foot of a steep hill height of 250 m located lower city. The city and the acropolis were surrounded by a wall. Had 16 and 8 of the longitudinal cross streets that divided the city into rectangular blocks of size 47X35 m. Longitudinal street that ran along the hillside were the stairs. The width of the main staircase reached 7.36 m, width of the rest - about 4, 4 m. The construction of public buildings was constructed artificial terraces.
Athens - the most famous of the Greek cities, located 5 km from the sea. The city had no regular plan. At the Acropolis - a rocky hill at 156 m above sea level, traces of settlements in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. In the XI-X centuries BC, Athens continues to expand. Their residences are distributed on the territory occupied before the necropolis to the north and northwest of the acropolis. At the beginning of V century BC, began construction of a new large temple of Athena made of marble. In the lower town, a new center of public and political life at the Agora.
The Greeks of the early period lived in modest little wooden houses in wicker huts; the walls were plastered with clay, or in houses built of adobe bricks. Many of the houses of the first settlers in the newly founded city of the Northern Black Sea region have been deepened into the ground in the form of mud huts with walls often were laid with stones. However, even in V-IV centuries BC is dominated by terrestrial homes with walls on stone foundations. They had several rooms and a patio, through which the penetrating light into the room. In the northern part of the house rooms are often housed in two floors, on the opposite side of the yard one-story house was not to interfere with the penetration of sunlight into the room north of the house in winter. The windows were small and located mainly on the second floor. Exterior walls of the house were deaf, and only one door connected the house to the street. |