Ancient Theater of Argos
Rock-cut Hellenistic theater for some twenty thousand spectators, gazing over the plain to the gulf.
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This guide to the Ancient Theater of Argos, near Nafplio, leaves the stage behind and turns you toward the town below, where in two hundred seventy-two BC a famous king of Epirus slipped through a gate held open by an ally. It follows Pyrrhus, the general behind the phrase Pyrrhic victory, his war elephants, and a bronze statue in the marketplace that matched an old prophecy. Best heard from the upper rows, looking down over the modern town.
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