Ancient sites · Makrygianni

Theatre of Dionysus

Photo: Nicholas Hartmann · CC BY-SA 4.0

The theatre on the south slope of the Acropolis where the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes were first staged at the City Dionysia. In its 4th-century BC form it held up to about 25,000 people; it is entered on the Acropolis slopes ticket.

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