Ancient Makyneia was situated in the borderland between Aetolia and Lokris, at a spur of Mt. Taphiassos. Ancient writers disagree as to whether it was a proper polis but it was nevertheless destroyed by Philip V, King of Macedonia, in 197 BCE. The remains of the city have not been securely identified but the impressive theater located here may well belong to Makyneia. The theater (and a nearby temple) were outside the city walls higher on the hill and has a seating capacity of 700 people. Some seats are carved in the rock and others were built of large slabs. The poorer citizens sat in wooden scaffoldings while high officials used the more comfortable linear row of seats.