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 [...] of Athens as one of the leading poleis in the classical Greek world. Select Bibliography Bourriot, F. (1976). Recherches sur la nature du Genos : étude d'histoire sociale athénienne [...] out in his seminal book on the phratry, Heracles was the primary deity worshipped by most, if not all, Athenian phratry members, and it will be remembered that each Athenian citizen belonged to this i