Asking his daughters the rhetorical question, to what gatherings and to what festivals they will in future be admitted, the audience may look about itself and wonder if its own offspring will in future be sitting in attendance at the Great Dionysia, a gathering predicated upon Athenian wealth derived from hegemony over other Greek city states. That such events honor the city’s relationship to its gods points up the way in which the city’s relations with other cities cannot be separated from its relations with its gods. [P] [Mg] These aspects of communal existence are always combined, for the gods are of necessity not protectors of one individual alone but of all people who worship them, not of Athens alone, but of all Greek cities. [Ad] Thus disregard for the other Greek cities will deprive Athens of the gods’ beneficence and Athenians of their well-being. [Mw]