Word: peiraeus
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...actual elevation of one hundred feet above it. The front row of seats are of solid Pentelic marble and have backs. The rows immediately behind them are not cut out of the solid rock as they are higher up, but are made of limestone from the Peiraeus. The theatre must have once been a noble and majestic structure but it is now only a bewildering mass of ruins...