Aspendos Theatre

This guide to Aspendos Theatre near Antalya opens with a legend: the ruler of Aspendos promised his daughter to whoever built the city's most useful structure, and one man built an aqueduct while the architect Zenon built this theatre instead. It follows the day the ruler came to judge between them, and traces the theatre's real history, commissioned in the second century under Marcus Aurelius and later converted into a Seljuk palace that helped preserve it. Stand at the stage lip and speak at a normal volume to test what visitors still notice today.