worshippers were officially welcomed. The acceptance of Bendis and her worshippers could not have been made clearer. Another reason to send a procession from the Hestia to Piraeus might be that it offered [...] the procession of the citizens (the epichorioi ) very fine, but it was no better than the show, made by the marching of the Thracian contingent’ ( Rep . 327a). Together the Thracians and the Athenians [...] Athena Nike decree. In the Bendis decree the decision on how to appoint a priestess has not yet been made. It actually states that an embassy has to be sent as quickly as possible, to seek advice from an
the dictatorship [31] . After he had accomplished all the required preparations for war, he made a vow according to which, if he had succeeded in capturing Veii, he would have celebrated magnificent [...] all not referable to the old city-state category; 3) the great number of cities and states conquered made unthinkable the idea of taking every cult statue to Rome: it is likely that the evocatio became
in the procession that reappear as essential elements in later triumphal imagery. A watercolor made at the time of the excavation incorporating fragments now missing shows a procession with a quadriga
give her to his friend as a wife, in return for his service in the matter of Helen. They had in fact made an agreement: the one of them who, drawing lots, would have Helen, should be obliged to assist his