Dinocrates

Dinocrates is noted by Vitruvius, in the only surviving architectural treatise from Antiquity, for his plan to sculpt in the flank of Mount Athos a colossal image of a man, holding a small city in one hand and with the other, pouring from a gigantic pitcher a river into the sea.

[2] Alexander dropped the proposal as Dinocrates reportedly did not consider the living conditions of the residents when he admitted to not planning for grain to be grown near the city; instead, it was to be transported by sea.

He was aided by Cleomenes of Naucratis and by Crates of Olynthus,[3] an esteemed hydraulic engineer who built the waterworks for the city and the sewer system demanded by the low-lying site.

In Babylon, he designed the funerary monument to Alexander's general Hephaestion (died in 324 BC), which was described by Diodorus Siculus, Arrian, Strabo, Plutarch and others.

Dinocrates was involved in reconstructing the Temple of Artemis—one of the seven wonders of the world—which had been destroyed by Herostratus in an act of arson on July 21, 356 BC, the same night, it was said, that Alexander was being born.