In the
Lycian confederacy, which consisted of twenty-three CITIES or republics, the largest were entitled to THREE votes in the COMMON COUNCIL, those of the middle class to TWO, and the smallest to ONE.
The
Lycian Confederacy, as far as its principles and form are transmitted, must have borne a still greater analogy to it.
3) O that thine arrows too, Lycean King, From that taut bow's gold string, Might fly abroad, the champions of our rights; Yea, and the flashing lights Of Artemis, wherewith the huntress sweeps Across the
Lycian steeps.
For they say, that when Lycurgus ceased to be guardian to King Charilles he went abroad and spent a long time with his relations in Crete, for the
Lycians are a colony of the Lacedaemonians; and those who first settled there adopted that body of laws which they found already established by the inhabitants; in like manner also those who now live near them have the very laws which Minos first drew up.
Sarpedon and Glaucus led the
Lycians from their distant land, by the eddying waters of the Xanthus.
Marmaris and Hisaronu are renowned for their nightlife, while Fethiye offers a more authentic experience as the starting point of the
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Jie and presented here, he has devoted his attentions primarily to the recovery of the history of the Hittite Empire and to the study of the grammar of Hittite, Luwian, and
Lycian. Appropriately, most of the contributions to the volume deal with the history and culture of Hatti and its "Neo-Hittite" successors and with grammatical questions concerning the languages of the Anatolian sub-family of Indo-European.