attested in 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 i [...] the Athenian community as a politico-polis (especially Ath. Pol. 1275a). But recently Ober has stressed that Aristotle also uses the word ‘polis’ to describe a community in a more inclusive sense, the [...] sanctuaries for the cohesion and definition of a polis community. [17] Founding a cult and building a sanctuary was one of the most important acts a community as a whole could undertake through which it