The important offices in Athens were now open to all Athenians, not only to all Athenian men but in the case of the priesthood of Athena Nike also to all Athenian women. The decree regulating the cult [...] Athena Nike a priestess being chosen by lot from all Athenian women is to be appointed’. It was a radical democratic decision to elect a priestess by lot from all Athenians ( ekhs Athenaion hapason ). [...] to appoint a priestess from all Athenians undermined the last vestige of archaic power held by the gene in their monopoly over priesthoods and redistributed it over all Athenians. [22] The

establishing religious cohesion between the two territories. The sixth century union of Salamis and Athens was, after all, potentially very instable. After losing the war, the Megarians may not have abandoned [...] out in his seminal book on the phratry, Heracles was the primary deity worshipped by most, if not all, Athenian phratry members, and it will be remembered that each Athenian citizen belonged to this i [...] and Heracles. Scholars have had great difficulty reconciling the two Salamis-related cults with this all-Athenian cult. There seems to be no symbolic connection with the island to explain why the Salaminioi