Marcian was dispatched with his unit for a war against the Sassanids ( probably the Roman-Sassanid war of 421 – 422 ), but along the road East he fell ill in Lycia ; at this time he might have already been tribunus and commander of his unit.

From the 9th century BC, Luwian regions coalesced into a number of states such as Lydia, Caria and Lycia, all of which had Hellenic influence.

Antoninus Liberalis is not alone in hinting that Leto came down from the land of the Hyperboreans in the guise of a she-wolf, or that she sought out the " wolf-country " of Lycia, formerly called Tremilis, which she renamed to honour wolves that had befriended her for her denning.

Caria and Lycia came to the attention of Athens, most powerful state remaining in Greece, which also had lost its central government ruling from Mycenae, now burned and nearly vacant.

Despite home rule under democratic principles Lycia was not a sovereign state and had not been since its defeat by the Carians.

Complete assimilation to Greek occurred in the 4th century, after Lycia had come under Alexander the Great and his fellow Macedonians.

Concluding that this person was the conqueror of Lycia in 546, Fellows conjectured that Harpagos had been made permanent satrap of Lycia for his services ; moreover, the position was hereditary, creating a Harpagid Dynasty.

Keen hypothesizes that since Caria had responsibility for the King's Highway through Lycia, Lycia and Caria were a satrapy.

Lycia had a single monarch, who ruled the entire country from a palace at Xanthos.

Caunus eventually came to Lycia, where he married the Naiad Pronoe and had by her a son Aegialus.

" Lycia and Pisidia each had a hill-town named Termessos.

By 647, Muawiyah had built a Syrian army strong enough to repel a Byzantine attack and, in subsequent years, to take the offensive against the Byzantines in campaigns that resulted in the capture of Cyprus ( 649 ) and Rhodes ( 654 ) and a devastating defeat of the Byzantine navy off the coast of Lycia ( 655 ).

Ptolemy received Egypt ; Laomedon received Syria and Phoenicia ; Philotas took Cilicia ; Peithon took Media ; Antigonus received Phrygia, Lycia and Pamphylia ; Asander received Caria ; Menander received Lydia ; Lysimachus received Thrace ; Leonnatus received Hellespontine Phrygia ; and Neoptolemus had Armenia.

Ptolemy received Egypt ; Laomedon received Syria and Phoenicia ; Philotas took Cilicia ; Peithon took Media ; Antigonus received Phrygia, Lycia and Pamphylia ; Asander received Caria ; Menander received Lydia ; Lysimachus received Thrace ; Leonnatus received Hellespontine Phrygia ; and Neoptolemus had Armenia.

In addition to the works above mentioned, Fellows published the following: The Xanthian Marbles ; their Acquisition and Transmission to England ( 1843 ), a refutation of false statements that had been published ; An Account of the Ionic Trophy Monument excavated at Xanthus ( 1848 ); a cheap edition of his two Journals, entitled Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, particularly in the Province of Lycia ( 1852 ); and Coins of Ancient Lycia before the Reign of Alexander ; with an Essay on the Relative Dates of the Lycian Monuments in the British Museum ( 1855 ).

Following the peace of Apamea in 188 BC, he received the regions of Phrygia, Lydia, Pisidia, Pamphylia, and parts of Lycia from his Roman allies, as they had no desire to actually administer territory in the Hellenistic east but wished for a strong state in Asia Minor as a bulwark against any possible Seleucid expansion in the future.

According to Stephanus of Byzantium, a daughter of Ogygus named Praxidike was married to Tremilus or Tremiles ( after whom Lycia had been previously named Tremile ) and had by him four sons: Tlos, Xanthus, Pinarus and Cragus.

* The Median general followed his victory at Lydia by conquering Ionia, Phoenicia, Caria, Lycia and many other regions of Asia Minor ( except Miletus which had earned the favor of Cyrus II through their great sage Thales's advice to stay neutral in the Lydian war ).

* Despite Harpagus ' reputation for mercy, the residents of Xanthos in Lycia committed suicide rather than surrender to him, saying that they had never been conquered.

* At Patara, in Lycia, there was a seasonal winter oracle of Apollo, said to have been the place where the god went from Delos.

Lycia may have been a member state of the Assuwa league of ca.

As the center of ancient Lycia and the site of its most extensive antiquities, Xanthus has been a mecca for students of Anatolian civilization since the early 19th century.

Following Galerius ' death, Maximinus was no longer constrained ; he enthusiastically took up renewed persecutions in the eastern territories under his control, encouraging petitions against Christians, one of which, addressed to him and to Constantine and Licinius, is preserved in a stone inscription at Arycanda in Lycia, " to request that the Christians, who have long been disloyal and still persist in the same mischievous intent, should at last be put down and not be suffered by any absurd novelty to offend against the honour due to the gods.

She came from Asia Minor and might have become a slave of the Emperor Claudius, following his expansion of the Roman Empire into Lycia and Pamphylia ; or she might have been purchased later, by Octavia, Claudius ' daughter.

It has also been found figured on ancient coins from Lycia and Pamphylia.

Myra is an ancient town in Lycia, where the small town of Kale ( Demre ) is situated today in present day Antalya Province of Turkey.

Patara ( Lycian: Pttara ), later renamed Arsinoe ( Greek: ), was a flourishing maritime and commercial city on the south-west coast of Lycia on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey near the modern small town of Gelemiş, in Antalya Province.

Lycia fought for the Persians in the Persian Wars, but on the defeat of the Achaemenid Empire by the Greeks, it became intermittently a free agent.

After the defeat of the Persians by the Greeks, Lycia became open to further Greek settlement.

Among the Sea peoples identified in Egyptian records are the Ekwesh, a group of Bronze Age Greeks ( Achaeans ); Teresh, Tyrrhenians, ancestors of the Etruscans ; Luka, an Anatolian people of the Aegean ( their name survives in the region of Lycia ); Sherden, probably Sardinians ; Shekelesh, probably the Italic tribe called Siculi ; Peleset, generally believed to refer to the Philistines, who might have come from Crete and were with the Tekrur ( possibly Greek Teucrians ) the only major tribe of the Sea Peoples known to have settled permanently in the Levant.

Harpagus captured Lycia, Cilicia and Phoenicia, using the technique of building earthworks to breach the walls of besieged cities, a method unknown to the Greeks.

* In the Iliad xvi, Apollo washes the black blood from the corpse of Sarpedon and anoints it with ambrosia, readying it for its dreamlike return to Sarpedon's native Lycia.

* Mount Chimaera, the region in Lycia that some believe was an inspiration for the myth

Silverius was sent into exile at Patara in Lycia, whose bishop petitioned the emperor for a fair trial for Silverius.

Proetus started out as king of Argos, and held the throne for about seventeen years, but Acrisius defeated and exiled him and he fled to King Jobates or Amphianax in Lycia, and married his daughter Antea or Stheneboea.

On defeating Antiochus III in 188 the Romans gave Lycia to Rhodes for 20 years, taking it back in 168 BC.

Although the 2nd-century AD dialogue, Erōtes, found the cities of Lycia " interesting more for their history than for their monuments, since they have retained none of their former splendor ," many relics of the Lycians remain visible today.

Letoon, an important center in Hellenic times of worship for the goddess Leto and her twin children, Apollo and Artemis, and nearby Xanthos, ancient capital of Lycia, constitute a UNESCO World Heritage site.

The Harpagid Theory was initiated by Charles Fellows, discoverer of the Xanthian Obelisk, and person responsible for the transportation of the Xanthian Marbles from Lycia to the British Museum.

* The confederation of Lycia sent ambassadors to Brutus, promising to form a military league and contribute money for building ships.

In one extant inscription ( CIL III. 12132, from Arycanda ), the cities of Lycia and Pamphylia asking for the interdiction of the Christian cult, Maximinus, in another inscription, replied by expressing his hope that " may those [...] who, after being freed from [...] those by-ways [...] rejoice snatched from a grave illness ". After the victory of Constantine over Maxentius, however, Maximinus, according to Eusebius, directed a letter to the Praetorian Prefect Sabinus, in which he expressed the view that it was better to " recall our provincials to the worship of the gods rather by exhortations and flatteries ".

Apollo took the corpse and cleaned it, then delivered it to Sleep ( Hypnos ) and Death ( Thanatos ), who took it back to Lycia for funeral honours.

Licinius Mucianus, legate of Lycia, held a banquet for 19 in a hollow plane-tree of Lycia, and the emperor Caligula another for 15 plus servants in a tree house ( nest ) built in the branches of a plane-tree at Velletri.