Architectural Space in Ancient Greece

C.A. Doxiadis

Translated and Edited by Jaqueline Tyrwhit

The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England

Originally published in German in 1937 under the title Raumordnung im griechischen städtebau. Translated with permission of Kurt Vowinckel Verlag, Heidelberg

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To the memory of my father and mother

Editor’s Note

In Chapters 5, 6, 7, notes and references are placed at the end of each site description rather than at the end of the chapter. Notes added for this edition are in brackets. Works consulted for the purpose of this edition appear in the bibliographical lists under the heading “Additional References.”

I The Discovery of the Ancient Greek System of Architectural Spacing

Man is the measure of all things,
of the existence of the things that are
and the nonexistence of the things that are not.

Protagoras,
quoted in Plato Theaetetus 152A