Bryce Trevor R. The Lycians in Literary and Epigraphic Sources

Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1986. — 273 p. — (The Lycians. A Study of Lycian History and Civilisation to the Conquest of Alexander the Great. Vol. 1.). — ISBN: 87-7289-023-1.This book is the first of a projected 2-volume account of the ancient Lycians. The Lycian civilisation has proved, and is continuing to prove, a rich field of investigation for historians, archaeologists, numismatists, and philologists alike. It is a civilisation with many distinctive features, as illustrated by its abundant archaeological remains, particularly the impressive funerary architecture of many of its cities, by its social customs and institutions, attested in both literary and epigraphic sources, by its numerous coin issues, amongst the most varied ever produced in Asia Minor, and by its peculiar language, which today is only partly understood.
In view of the advances that have been made in Lycian research and fieldwork in recent years, the time is appropriate to gather together the information now available to us in a comprehensive treatment of Lycian history and civilisation. No such treatment has in fact been undertaken since the publication of Treuber's Geschichte der Lykier in 1887.Map of Lycia.
The Anatolian Predecessors of the Lycians.
The Early Lycians and Greek Literary Tradition.
The Inscriptions and the Lycian Language.
The Historical Background.
Customs and Institutions.
Gods and Oracles.
Lycia - The Greco-Roman View.