Lycian families in the Hellenistic and Roman periods : a regional study of inscriptions : towards a social and legal framework 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