Side Antique Theatre - Garden;
The Theatre lies on the narrowest part of the peninsula and the central side of the Side. Although the theatre plan has a Hellenistic tradition, the building has a Roman architectural tradition in structure. The Theatre of Side is a unique example in this way of structure. Skenae Frons has a three storey colonnade façade. The façade decoration has a characteristic of Antonine Period. In the first storey can be seen the Dionysos Friese. In the frieze, the life of Dionysos, the god of wine and the theatre, describing chronologically from west to the east and the finishing part has Gygantomakhia imagery.
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