BC 200 – AD 700
Balboura
A member of the Cibyratic tetrapolis; a high plateau city spread over two hills, with two theatres.
- Lycian League votes
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- Location
- 36.9556° N, 29.5806° E
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In mythology
Offerings cut in the rock
Artemis
In the interior of Lycia there are hundreds of small votive reliefs cut into the rocks at the roadside. Most are nameless, most are roughly worked — marks left by villagers, shepherds and travellers. The great temples were for kings; these stones were for everyone.
Whose god he was
Kakasbos
The reliefs of Kakasbos are not in great temples but at the roadside and near villages. Those who dedicated them were not notable people but ordinary ones: shepherds, farmers, travellers. Attempts were made to match him with Heracles, but the fit was never quite right — because he is not a hero but a protector.
The mythology nobody wrote down
Kakasbos
Kakasbos shows that mythology does not live in epics alone. His name occurs in no poem, no one wrote down his story — yet his reliefs outnumber those of any Greek god in Lycia. Who the people actually prayed to is told not by literature but by stone.