Founding of a city
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
a city was being founded · making a city of the place · the best city · your city may be considered as established
spoken of as
1 expressionThe Founding of the City1 mention
Republic (Greek)
At last, then, son of Ariston, said I, your city may be considered as established.
in the texts
Republic
The completion of the theoretical construction of the ideal city, marking the transition to the search for justice within it.
At last, then, son of Ariston, said I, your city may be considered as established.
Anabasis
Rumoured or planned establishment of a city at the army's location.
Even the hostile peoples who dwelt near by began now to send envoys to Xenophon—for they heard that he was the man who was making a city of the place—to ask what they must do in order to be his friends;
And by this time there was an abundance of everything, for market products came in from the Greek cities on all sides, and people coasting past were glad to put in, since they heard that a city was being founded and that there was a harbour.