Ambracia itself is only a shadow of its former self. I was told that many residents were forced to relocate to Nicopolis when the divine Augustus founded his city, so only a small percentage of the old residential area is presently occupied. Personally I will be happy when this whole city, once founded by the Corinthians to control the wealth of the plain and the waters of the Ambracian Gulf, vanishes from the face of the earth. Our soldiers should have burned it to the ground back in the day, during the great war against Sparta, and not allow the locals to agree to that ridiculous 100-year defensive alliance. But the gods seem to protect Ambracia, for the Romans also failed to destroy it.