Almost every North American city has a Euclid Avenue.
Surveyors, beholden to
that most spatially oriented of Greeks, made sure that at least one reference to the founder of
geometry slipped into every freshly drafted city plan. The same Hellenic leaning at roughly the same point in the development of urban America led to the founding of
Troy, two
Spartas, an
Ithaca, two
Athenses, an
Olympia, a
Corinth and a
Smyrna, scattered through the
United States.
(just one of the zesty ideas found in Hugh Kenner's Massey Lecture, The Elsewhere Community)