How Did Greek Roads Affect Our Life

Roads were a very important aspect in our life since communities became organized and traveling and trading goods were common. Long time ago traveling from Troezen to Athens was dangerous; there were numerous number of thieves and murderers on the way. So it was necessary to establish safe passage path for travelers and tradesmen. In Greek roads were not important as much as in roman. The roads in Greece did not developed that much by that time and perhaps this was due to the nature of the surface of Greece and its geography. At the first roads was nothing but clear-cut paths in the countryside. Some of the roads in Greek were unpaved so it was dry and dusty in summer and muddy during the winters. Greek however had an extensive road network connecting even the most remote settlements. Even thought that planning roads in cities was not always easy especially for great centers such as Athens or Piraeus because since long time ago community life formed small and narrow roads, also the natural topology determined the planning of roads. However, two kinds of roads were developed: the regular, with straight, parallel, and rectilinear streets, and the irregular, where roads did not follow straight lines but
This road originated from the central place of Agorá ("marketplace") or Kerameikós (the area where potters, called kerameis in Greek, lived). This road not only ran through Athens; it also connected Athens with all the demes of Attica and the rest of Greece.

In conclusion, Roman and Greek were one of the powerful empires back then and their roads had a huge impact on their economic , social, religious and politics. They had different type or construction , and some of the roads still exist till our days. Which I would like one day to go and visit. And now I can understand the actual meaning of the saying “all roads lead to