Visiting Acropolis part 6 South view of Athens, Acropolis Museum, Theatre of Dionysus, my first time

Visiting Acropolis part 6 South view of Athens, Acropolis Museum, Theatre of Dionysus, my first time

Visiting Acropolis part 6 South view of Athens Acropolis Museum Theatre of Dionysus  my first time
Acropolis part 6 my first time at Parthenon 
2017 after a trip to Naxos island

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The Theatre of Dionysus (or Theatre of Dionysos, gr: Θέατρο του Διονύσου)
 is an ancient theatre in Athens on the south slope of the Akropolis hill,
 built as part of the sanctuary of Dionysos Eleuthereus (Dionysus the Liberator).
 The first orchestra terrace was constructed on the site around the mid- to late-sixth century BC, where it hosted the City Dionysia.
 The theatre reached its fullest extent in the fourth century BC
 under the epistates of Lycurgus when it would have had a capacity of up to 17,000,
 and was in continuous use down to the Roman period. 
The theatre then fell into decay in the Byzantine era and was not identified,
 excavated[and restored to its current condition until the nineteenth century.

The Acropolis Museum (Greek: Μουσείο Ακρόπολης, Mouseio Akropolis)
 is an archaeological museum focused on the findings of the archaeological site 
of the Acropolis of Athens. The museum was built to house every artifact found
 on the rock and on the surrounding slopes, from the Greek Bronze Age to Roman
 and Byzantine Greece. It also lies over the ruins of a part of Roman and early Byzantine Athens.

The museum was founded in 2003, while the Organization of the Museum was established in 2008.
 It opened to the public on 20 June 2009.[1] More than 4,250 objects
 are exhibited over an area of 14,000 square metres. The Organization for the Construction
 of the new museum is chaired by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
 Professor Emeritus of Archaeology, Dimitrios Pandermalis