Ionian Attic Doric

Its variants were spoken in the southern and eastern peloponnese as well as in sicily epirus southern italy crete rhodes some islands in the southern aegean sea and som.

Ionian attic doric. Several lyric and epigrammatic poets wrote in this dialect such as ibycus of rhegium and leonidas of tarentum. The shaft of the column is fluted usually with 20 flutes while the capital is simple and flared. The ionian dialect of greek was closely related to attic and was spoken in ionia and on many of the aegean islands. Doric proper northwest doric achaean doric eastern group.

Attic ionic distribution of greek dialects in magna graecia in the classical period. Aeolic arcado cypriot eastern group. Ionic columns are considered to be the tallest and thinnest of the three types of columns. But because the ionic attic dialect of athens dominated greek culture from the 5th century bce very little remains of ancient writings in pure doric dialect.

Attic ionic doric or dorian was an ancient greek dialect. Attic and ionic dialects together form a dialect group. The main characteristic of doric was the preservation of proto indo european aː long α which in attic ionic became ɛː η. It is called ionic because it developed in the ionian islands in the 6th century b c.

Doric is the conventional dialect of choral lyric poetry which includes the laconian alcman the theban pindar and the choral songs of attic tragedy stasima. Doric was one of the major dialects of the classical greek language along with the ionic attic aeolic and arcado cypriot dialect groups. Roman historian vitruvius compared this delicate order to a female form in contrast to the stockier male doric order. Key difference a distinguishing feature of the doric column is that fact that they have no base.

Doric proper northwest doric achaean doric central group. The ionic order is one of the three ancient greek orders. The column itself is short stout and heavy.