Delphi was largely inaccessible to the Athenians because of the Peloponnesian War. [16] In sum, the presence of Thracians and Bendis in Athens for over a century culminated in the grant of enktesis [...] be sent to the oracle is to be selected from all Athenians instead of the priestess and priest. In sum, it cannot be said whether this regulation for the priesthood of Bendis was as democratic as the one [...] could be orgeones , notably the Thracian orgeones of Bendis; and, as Ferguson stresses, ‘aliens were debarred from being phratry members’. [25] He states that it was impossible for the
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