37) to take care 'of the broad roads by which the processions move to the temple of Zeus the Saviour'.
A change came with the new philosophy and the new politics of the Macedonian era.

The older Greek City-states had been large, wealthy, and independent; magnificent buildings and sumptuous festivals were as natural to them as to the greater autonomous municipalities in all ages.

But in the Macedonian period the individual cities sank to be parts of a larger whole, items in a dominant state, subjects of military monarchies.

The use of public buildings, the splendour of public festivals in individual cities, declined.

Instead, the claims of the individual citizen, neglected too much by the City-states but noted by the newer philosophy, found consideration even in town-planning.