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 [...] 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 [...] How did a foreign deity like Bendis receive an officially accepted public cult with a temenos and what did this entail for her Thracian worshippers? A glimpse of what happened is given in a late inscription

to the seventh or eighth. That they had been a part of the Kekrops-Erechtheus mythological cycle for a long time is not necessarily a problem, but rather a solution to it. It was the fact that they were [...] Hera, which was given a new home in a newly consecrated precinct on the Aventine hill. How should this act be interpreted? Was it just a brutal act of humiliation at the expense of a poor, conquered nation [...] behind this network of cults and to be able to gain a glimpse of the concomitant ideology of a common past. Thus, we find the Salaminioi to be a part of a complex religious network, clustered around the