View of the theater of Dionysus (god of wine and protector of fertility and vegetation), as it survives today. The coloured marble paving of the orchestra and the parapets which separate it from the audience date from the Roman period. It was in this Theater of Dionysus that the works of the great ancient dramatists Aeshylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes were performed for the first time.