Alexander As City-Planner
- By selecting the right angle of the streets, Alexander made the city breathe with the etesian winds, so that as these blow across a great expanse of sea, they cool the air of the town, and so he provided its inhabitants with a moderate climate and good health. Alexander also laid out the walls so that they were at once exceedingly large and marvelously strong.
- —Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, volume 8.
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