Stop 9 of 11
The Theatres
The Large Theatre, the Odeon and the gladiators' barracks.
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Pompeii had two theatres side by side, and you're at the bigger one. The Large Theatre was built in the second century BC the Greek way, its seats set into the natural slope of the hill. In the time of the emperor Augustus, the Holconius family, local grandees, paid to rebuild and enlarge it. It held about five thousand people.
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