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 [...] 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 [...] ( enktesis ) and to build a shrine in accordance with the oracular response from Dodona and to send the procession from the Hestia outside the Prytaneion, and now they in the city have decided to build