In the West, our city-planning tradition traces its roots to Hippodamus of Miletus, who laid out the ancient-Greek port of Piraeus in a rectangular grid expanding outward from an agora.

The world city of Ephesus, home to the Temple of Artemis — one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient world — was located 50 miles north of Miletus. At precisely this moment, Heraclitus, the Ionian from ...

Born in Miletus, an Ionian Greek settlement on the ... Aspasia's decision to leave her home city and journey east to Athens would have been quite remarkable for a man, for a young, unmarried ...