Photo: “"Ältestes Orkaelheiligtum" in Griechenland ist die Eiche von Dodona. 02”, Holger Uwe Schmitt · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized for the web.
GREECE · FROM THE BRONZE AGE
Sanctuary of Dodona
Δωδώνη
Dodona, in Epirus, was a sanctuary of Zeus whose oracle was traditionally held to be the oldest in Greece; its priests read the god’s will in the rustling of a sacred oak. The theatre, built under King Pyrrhus in the early 3rd century BC, is on UNESCO’s Tentative List as part of ‘Ancient Greek Theatres’.
- Original name
- Δωδώνη
- Country
- Greece
- Period
- From the Bronze Age
- Civilisation
- Greek
- UNESCO
- On the World Heritage Tentative List
- Location
- 39.5465° N, 20.7878° E Open in OpenStreetMap Open in Apple Maps
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Areas of the site
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Sanctuary of Zeus
The sanctuary of Zeus, with the remains of temples, the bouleuterion and the prytaneion.
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Theatre
Large theatre built under King Pyrrhus in the early 3rd century BC; on UNESCO’s Tentative List.
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Acropolis
Walled acropolis north of the sanctuary; its enclosure dates to the early 4th century BC.
A QUESTION FROM THE ROAD
When was the theatre at Dodona built?
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