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 [...] 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 [...] and Heracles. Scholars have had great difficulty reconciling the two Salamis-related cults with this all-Athenian cult. There seems to be no symbolic connection with the island to explain why the Salaminioi