headquarters of the Salaminioi. It was here that the Salaminioi decree was found and it appears that the temenos of Eurysakes served both as a depository of documents relating to genos regulations, and as a meeting [...] main deity, the Athenians took an active interest in the island, and through the construction of a temenos of Athena Skiras in Attica, they applied religion to bridge the physical and historical gap between
Xenophon later refers to ( Hell. 2.4.11) is unknown. She must at least have had an altar with a temenos , most likely on the same spot as the later Bendideion, which was located on Mounychia Hill in Piraeus [...] Mounychia. 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
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