Around you is not just an ancient monument, but a place where generations once gathered, listened, watched, and shared in the life of the city. You are now standing in one of the most important monuments of Butrint: The Theatre. The theater at Butrint seems to have been a creation of the 4th-3rd century BC, possibly built under King Pyrrhus of Epirus, the cousin of Alexander the Great and a famous general who unsuccessfully invaded Italy and gave us the term ‘Pyrrhic victory’ - a victory won at such great cost that it is the same as a defeat.