Athens are the mercenaries accompanying Peisistratos on his return from Thrace to Athens in the 560s (Hdt I.64; Aristl. Ath. Pol. 15.2). From the 560s onwards Thracians formed a clearly identifiable and [...] advice from an oracle (ll.30-31). The question to be asked, as I read it, was: either 1) ‘whether it is necessary that a woman who is to be priestess and a man who is to be priest be chosen from the Thracians [...] Hell. 2.4.11), as to smoothen the transition from Thrace to Athens. The first positive evidence for the official acceptance of Bendis comes from the Inventory list of the Treasurers of the Other