regulating the appointment of a priestess for Athena Nike ( IG I³ 35) dated either to the 440s or the 420s. Lines 4-6 of this decree read that ‘For Athena Nike a priestess being chosen by lot from all Athenian [...] the priesthood of Athena Nike also to all Athenian women. The decree regulating the cult and priesthood of Bendis, however, shows some anomalies compared to the Athena Nike decree. In the Bendis decree [...] regulation for the priesthood of Bendis was as democratic as the one for the priesthood of Athena Nike. What it does tell us is that the Athenians struggled with the question how the priesthood of Bendis
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