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Theater of Dionysus
The theater of Dionysus, under the south side of the Acropolis. 
It was here that every year Aeschylus, Sophokles, Euripides, Aristophanes,
played their plays during the festival of Dionysus, given by the city. The theater was
rebuild by the Athenian statesman Lykourgo, in 342 - 326 BC, from stone and in
later years by the Romans.
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