Antique theater in Larissa was one of the biggest theaters in ancient Greece and the largest in the territory of Thessaly. Its capacity was 10,000 people. Ancient Theatre located on the southern slope of the hill RADFs, which was the ancient Acropolis of Larissa. Today the ruins of the ancient theater located in the center of the modern city.

Large Antique Theater (or first Antique Theatre) was built below the ancient fortified city during the reign of King Philip V of Macedonia at the end of the third century BC and actively used by some six centuries. Initially, the theater served as not only a place for staging theatrical performances and other cultural events, but also the urban agora, which hosted the meeting of the People's Assembly (the supreme body of Thessaly). The theater was probably a place of worship, and the god Dionysus. Such assumptions have been made after the theater was discovered near the altar of Dionysus. Construction had the typical structure of the Hellenistic theater. At the end of the 1st century AD the theater was transformed into a Roman arena and thus was used until the end of the 3rd century BC, the theatrical presentation during this period took place in the so-called Maly Theatre, which was located nearby.

It took many centuries and the once magnificent ancient building were buried under the ground. Although the upper part of the theater was visible even before the mid-19th century, but after the earthquake in 1868, it completely disappeared under the rubble of collapsed buildings. Later on this place we built a new house. In 1910, it held its first research and excavated part of the scene. In 1990 he began an ambitious program to restore the ancient theater. Especially for this purpose, it was demolished part of the city's buildings.

Today this ancient structure is considered to be the hallmark of the city, an important historical monument and a popular tourist attraction.