This photo, taken around 1990, shows a frontview of the Acropolis Theater in Athens, Greece. The theater is known as Odeon of Herodes Atticus or Herodeon. This stone structure, which had a seating capacity of 5,000, was built in 161 by a wealthy Athenian named Herodes Atticus in memory of his wife, Aspasia Annia Regilia, who was a distant relative of the Roman emperor Hadrian, and other Roman emperors. The Acropolis in Athens, Greece, is an outcrop of rock used in ancient times as a religious center. Under the fifth-century statesman Pericles, the time of the Golden Age of Athens, t
This photo, taken around 1990, shows a front view of the Acropolis Theater in Athens, Greece. The theater is known as Odeon of Herodes Atticus or Herodeon. This stone structure, which had a seating capacity of 5,000, was built in 161 by a wealthy Athenian named Herodes Atticus in memory of his wife, Aspasia Annia Regilia, who was a distant relative of the Roman emperor Hadrian, and other Roman emperors. The Acropolis in Athens, Greece, is an outcrop of rock used in ancient times as a religious center. Under the fifth-century statesman Pericles, the time of the Golden Age of Athens, the temple dedicated to the goddess Athena, the Parthenon, was built.
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Location: Athens, Greece
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