Perikleous St, Piraeus excavation

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The Archaeological site of Terpsithea Square is an archaeological site which formed part of the urban fabric of the ancient settlement of Piraeus located in Attica, Greece

History: The street plan was laid out to the design of Hippodamus who was a philosopher, urban planner and meteorologist. The street plan separates a private residential zone from the naval station and the commercial and sacred areas of the port. Each urban block measured 40.37m by 47.40m and was divided into two rows of four houses. The urban blocks formed neighbourhoods known as synoikies, which comes from the word synoecism (or synoikismos, Greek: συνοικισμός), which means the merging of smaller communities into one larger community. Each of these neighbourhoods was accessed by a street with a width of 5m to 5.20m. These were known as Small Roads and were linked to peripheral streets with a width of 8m to 8.2m, known as Medium Roads. The whole city was bisected by two main streets of 16.5m known as plateies odoi, or Large Roads. These linked the public areas of the city with the main entrances to the city.

Location and discovery: The site belongs to the Organization of School Buildings (Organismos Scholikon...