Ruins of the Olympos Theater

The Olympos theatre located in the Southern City was built on the northern slope of the hill at the western boundary of the city, where the walls make a southward turn and curve up towards the slopes of the Sepet Mountain. The fact that the Olympos theatre is located right beside the area where the western necropolis of the city starts is considered to be a Lycian characteristic. The heavy damage observed in the remaining sections of the theatre, which is dated to the second half of the 2nd century AD according to the inscription found in Phaselis indicating that the Olympos theatre was built bu Tyindaris to honour Hadrian, is due to the severe earthquakes suffered in the city and to the fact that the blocks were melted down in lime kilns to be used as construction material during the Byzantine Era.