Review: The Book of Lycia: Archaeology, Culture and History in Western Antalya

Year 2022, Issue: 2, 225 - 242, 31.12.2022

Terrance M. P. Duggan

Abstract

Nevzat Hoca, whom I have known and worked with since the 1990s, asked me to undertake the redaction of the English text of the translation by Peter Klemper of this book, which was first published in Turkish entitled, Lykia Kitabı, in 2015 (576 pages).

Keywords

Review, Lycia, Archaeology

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