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Touring the ancient theatres of Epirus, Greece
The mountains and forests of Epirus offer a dramatic backdrop for a tour through the theatres of the Greek region’s ancient cities. Diana Bentley finds stories of a famed oracle and a celebrated victory along the way.
It’s a place of towering mountain ranges, luxuriant forests, and rushing rivers. Lying on the shores of the Ionian Sea in north-west Greece, Epirus is one of the lesser-known and more rugged regions of the country. Yet it was a fertile cradle of human life that gave rise to great cities whose remains now lie scattered across its mountain tops and woodlands. Theatres stood at the heart of their civic and spiritual lives, and while most of them were built in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, each is extraordinary in its own way. Now Epirus’ ancient theatres are being excavated and restored. Soon they’ll be admired again, near to their original splendour in their wild and enchanting surroundi
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