Ancient Thyrreion is one of the main cities of Acarnania, whose ruins are preserved in the geographical limits of the village of Agios Vassilios, renamed Thyrreion after the ancient city. Thyrreion is a municipal department of Aktion – Vonitsa Municipality in the Prefecture of Aetoloacarnania. The site of the theatre has been identified as a natural hollow near the modern archaeological museum, but no excavation work has been carried out to date.
G. Stamatis
Archaeologist
Theatre of Thyrreion
Theatre
Ancient Thyrreion is one of the main cities of Acarnania, whose ruins are preserved in the geographical limits of the village of Agios Vassilios, renamed Thyrreion after the ancient city. Thyrreion is a municipal department of Anaktorio Municipality in the Prefecture of Aetoloacarnania. The site of the theatre has been identified as a natural hollow near the modern archaeological museum, but no excavation work has been carried out to date.
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– Noack, AA 31 (1916), 219 – E. Kirsten, Bericht über eine Reise in Aetolien und Akarnanien, AA 56 (1941), 99-119 – E. Kirsten, Colloquium Geographicum 5 (1956), 59 (plan by Noack)
Municipal Department of Thyrreion, Aktion – Vonitsa Municipality, Xiromeros District, Aetoloacarnania Prefecture.
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Ancient Thyrreion is one of the main cities of Acarnania, whose ruins are preserved in the geographical limits of the village of Agios Vassilios, renamed Thyrreion after the ancient city. Thyrreion is a municipal department of Anaktorio Municipality in the Prefecture of Aetoloacarnania. The site of the theatre has been identified as a natural hollow near the modern archaeological museum, but no excavation work has been carried out to date.
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