The decorative still dominated the useful.

Broad straight streets were still few and were laid out mainly as avenues for processions and as ample spaces for great facades.[4] Private houses were still of small account.

The notion that the City was the State, helpful and progressive as it was, did something also to paralyse in certain ways the development of cities.
[4] Pindar mentions 'the paved road cut straight to be smitten by horse-hoofs in processions of men that besought Apollo's care' at Cyrene (_Pyth._ v.

90).

An inscription from the Piraeus, of 320 B.C., orders the Agoranomi (p.