Monumental remodel

At first, the Theatre of Dionysus was made of wood. However, the Athenian statesman Lycurgus refurbished the whole thing in 330 BCE, replacing the seating, stage and skene with stone. Lycurgus also built a new temple to the wine god nearby, but in a sign of the times he erected three bronze statues of the great tragedians Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles to the theatre’s main east entrance.