Lycian Families in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods

Download or read book Lycian Families in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods written by Selen Kılıç Aslan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can we study the social and legal practices related to families in an ancient society even in the absence of relevant literary and legal sources? In Lycia, thanks to our rich corpus of inscriptions, and the regional funerary epigraphic habit, we can. This book brings together for the first time the full range of Lycian epigraphic evidence, examines it in a systematic way, and investigates three central elements of familial life in the Hellenistic and Roman periods: marriage, children, and inheritance practices; in doing so it briefly touches on a number of prosopographical, demographic, and anthropological questions. The book makes an innovative contribution not only to the history of Lycia but also to the wider study of ancient families.