Eudocia (Ancient Greek:Εὐδοκία) was a town inancient Lycia.
Although William Smith'sDictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) said that theSynecdemus ofHierocles mentions four towns inAsia Minor called Eudocia (Εὐδοκία), including one in Lycia,[1] other scholars report theSynecdemus as calling one or more of them Eudocias or Eudoxias.[2][3] and the name of the Lycian town as it appears in the text of theSynecdemus as edited by Parthey in 1866 is clearly Eudocias (Εὐδοκιάς), while noting that in someNotitiae Episcopatuum the name is given as Eudoxias (Εὐδοξιάς).[4]
Le Quien, who mentions no town in Lycia called Eudocia, says that theSynecdemus called a town in Lycia Eudocias and one in Pamphylia Eudoxias, but that other sources speak of the Pamphylian town also as Eudocias. He sees in the presence in theSynecdemus both of a LycianTelmessus and a Lycian Eudocias and also of a PamphylianTermessus and a Pamphylian Eudoxias or Eudocias proof that they were all distinct cities. It is curious then that, although, when speaking of Telmessus, he says that it was the Pamphylian Termessus and the Pamphylian Eudocias that for long had the same bishop,[5] when he speaks of the Lycian Eudocias, he attributes to that see the same bishops that he attributes elsewhere to the Pamphylian Eudocias, calling the two most ancient one either bishops of Telmessus and Eudocias (when speaking of Lycia) or bishops of Termessus and Eudocias (when speaking of Pamphylia). The bishops that he mentions for both towns that he calls Eudocias are Timotheus (at the 431Council of Ephesus), Zenodotus (at the 451Council of Ephesus), and Photius or Photinus (at the 787Second Council of Nicaea).[6]
The more recent study by Gams makes no mention of anybishopric in Lycia called either Eudocias or Eudocia, but mentions both the Lycian Telmessus and the Pamphylian Termessus and Eudocias.[3]
TheAnnuario Pontificio speaks of a no longer residential, and therefore nowtitular,episcopal see in theRoman province of Lycia as called Eudocia. It was asuffragan ofMyra, themetropolitan see and capital of that province. TheAnnuario Pontificio states that the town that it calls Eudocia was near Makri, the name that at least by the 9th century was given to the city previously called Telmessus, which is nowFethiye,Muğla Province,Turkey.