DEINOCRATES, a famous and original Greek architect, of the time of Alexander the Great. He tried to captivate the ambi tious fancy of that king with a design for carving Mount Athos into a gigantic seated statue. This plan was not carried out, but Deinocrates designed for Alexander the plan of the new city of Alexandria, and constructed the vast funeral pyre of Hephaes tion. Alexandria was, like Peiraeeus and Rhodes (see HIPPODA Mvs), built on a regular plan, the streets of most earlier towns being narrow and contused.