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 [...] advice from an oracle (ll.30-31). The question to be asked, as I read it, was: either 1) ‘whether it is necessary that a woman who is to be priestess and a man who is to be priest be chosen from the Thracians [...] in Athen’, From the collections of Ny Carlsberg Glypothek 3 (1942) 169-188. ↩ Edmonds, J.M., The Fragments of Attic Comedy vol.1 (Leiden 1957) 45-49, fragments 71-84 concerning Kratinos’