members of one of the many mainland demes. Thus, a person from Salamis might be called Kleagoras Acharneus, not Kleagoras Salaminios. From our textual sources we learn that Salamis did not become part [...] 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 [...] autonomous king of Salamis, which suggests that the island was perceived as an independent entity from an early age. More importantly, a combination of literary and epigraphic sources show that the Athenians