ABSTRACT
From the fourth century or later we have scattered epigraphic evidence for cults of Themis in Thessaly, Boiotia and on Rhodes, and literary attestations for Macedonia, Epiros and the Argolid, but whether any of these cults pre-dates the late Classical period is open to question.6 An Archaic Themis is often posited for Delphi, where, with Gaia, she is one of the mythical ‘previous owners’ of the oracle, but our best archaeological evidence for the Archaic Themis is from Rhamnous, while Athens is the only place where Themis is actually attested as an epithet of Ge.
