* They wrote in their native dialects ( Alcaeus and Sappho in Aeolic dialect, Anacreon in Ionic );

In the East Ionic dialect, however, the sound / h / disappeared by the sixth century BC, and the letter was re-used initially to represent a development of a long vowel, which later merged in East Ionic with instead.

However, thanks to recent discoveries of some inscriptions on Halicarnassus, dated to about that time, we now know that the Ionic dialect was used there even in official documents, so there was no need to assume like the Suda that he must have learned the dialect elsewhere.

Traditions which assert that he was blind may have arisen from the meaning of the word in both Ionic, where the verbal form ( homēreúō ) has the specialized meaning of " guide the blind ", and the Aeolian dialect of Cyme, where ( hómēros ) is synonymous with the standard Greek ( tuphlós ), meaning ' blind '.

That result is a bit counter-intuitive since digamma was still a feature of the Boeotian dialect that Hesiod probably spoke, whereas it had already vanished from the Ionic vernacular of Homer.

The Odyssey was written in a poetic dialect of Greek — a literary amalgam of Aeolic Greek, Ionic Greek, and other Ancient Greek dialects — and comprises 12, 110 lines of dactylic hexameter.

Displaced populations escaped to former colonies of the Mycenaeans in Anatolia and elsewhere, where they came to speak the Ionic dialect.

The presence of Doric Ionians is somewhat contradictory, but Herodotus himself, a major author of the Ionic dialect, was from a Doric city, Halicarnassus.

In the Greek tradition, the horse is called the " Wooden Horse " ( Δούρειος Ἵππος, Doúreios Híppos, in the Homeric Ionic dialect ).

Ctesias was the author of treatises on rivers, and on the Persian revenues, of an account of India entitled Indica ( which is of value as recording the beliefs of the Persians about India ), and of a history of Assyria and Persia in 23 books, called Persica, written in opposition to Herodotus in the Ionic dialect, and professedly founded on the Persian royal archives.

The Ionic order originated in the mid-6th century BC in Ionia, the southwestern coastland and islands of Asia Minor settled by Ionian Greeks, where an Ionian dialect was spoken.

Later Greek literature wrote of three main dialect divisions: Aeolic, Doric and Ionic.

Attic was part of the Ionic dialect group.

The earliest recorded Greek literature, that attributed to Homer and dated to the 8th or 7th centuries BC, was not written in the Attic dialect, but in " Old Ionic ".

Students learning Ancient Greek today usually start with the Attic dialect, proceeding, depending on their interest, to the koine of the New Testament and other early Christian writings, or Homeric Greek to read the works of Homer and Hesiod, or Ionic Greek to read the histories of Herodotus and the medical texts of Hippocrates.

* The dialect and orthography of Old Attic inscriptions in Attic alphabet before 403 BC ( Ionic alphabet-reform by archon Eucleides ).

* The conventionalized and poetic dialect of the Attic tragic poets, mixed with Epic and Ionic Greek and used in the episodes.

As with other authors of the Second Sophistic, Arrian wrote primarily in Attic ( Indica is in Herodotus ' Ionic dialect, his philosophical works in Koine Greek ).

Ionic Greek was a subdialect of the Attic – Ionic dialect group of ancient Greek ( see Greek dialects ).

The Ionic dialect appears to have originally spread from the Greek mainland across the Aegean at the time of the Dorian invasions, around the 11th Century BC.

The Ionic dialect is generally divided into two major time periods, Old Ionic ( or Old Ionian ) and New Ionic ( or New Ionian ).

This means that the Doric order was the order of the ground floor, the Ionic order was used for the middle story, while the Corinthian or the Composite order was used for the top story.

It was built in the Ionic order and consists of seven fluted columns, unusually carved from single pieces of stone ( most columns were constructed from a series of discs joined together ).

In the former role, it was later replaced in the classic Greek alphabet by Eta ( Η ), which was taken over from eastern Ionic alphabets, while in the latter role it was replaced by the digraph spelling ΕΙ.

Hera (; Greek, Hēra, equivalently, Hērē, in Ionic and Homer ) was the wife and one of three sisters of Zeus in the Olympian pantheon of Greek mythology and religion.

That temple was Doric on the exterior, Ionic on the interior, and incorporated a Corinthian column, the earliest known, at the center rear of the cella.

For the North Portico, a variation on the Ionic Order was devised incorporating a swag of roses between the volutes.

Their settlement was connected with the legendary history of the Ionic people in Attica, which asserts that the colonists were led by Neleus and Androclus, sons of Codrus, the last king of Athens.

In accordance with this view the " Ionic migration ", as it was called by later chronologers, was dated by them one hundred and forty years after the Trojan war, or sixty years after the return of the Heracleidae into the Peloponnese.

But like the Amphictyonic league in Greece, the Ionic was rather of a sacred than a political character ; every city enjoyed absolute autonomy, and, though common interests often united them for a common political object, they never formed a real confederacy like that of the Achaeans or Boeotians.

It has been thought that the Ionian migration from Greece carried with it some part of a population which retained the artistic traditions of the Mycenaean civilization, and so caused the birth of the Ionic school ; but whether this was so or not, it is certain that from the 8th century BC onwards we find the true spirit of Hellenic art, stimulated by commercial intercourse with eastern civilizations, working out its development chiefly in Ionia and its neighbouring isles.

The formal vocabulary of Ancient Greek architecture, in particular the division of architectural style into three defined orders: the Doric Order, the Ionic Order and the Corinthian Order, was to have profound effect on Western architecture of later periods.

The Doric order was one of the three orders or organizational systems of ancient Greek or classical architecture ; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.

Ionic bonds are strong ( and thus ionic substances require high temperatures to melt ) but also brittle, since the forces between ions are short-range, and do not easily bridge cracks and fractures.

The Ionic order is also marked by an entasis, a curved tapering in the column shaft.

The contemporary Parthenon, the largest temple in classical Athens, is also in the Doric order, although the sculptural enrichment is more familiar in the Ionic order: the Greeks were never as doctrinaire in the use of the Classical vocabulary as Renaissance theorists or neoclassical architects.

In Greek mythology, Adrasteia ( Greek: Ἀδράστεια ( Ionic Greek: Ἀδρήστεια ), " inescapable "; also spelled Adrastia, Adrastea, Adrestea, Adastreia ) was a nymph who was charged by Rhea with nurturing the infant Zeus, in secret in the Dictaean cave, to protect him from his father Cronus ( Krónos ).

The Parthenon, although it conforms mainly to the Doric order, also has some Ionic elements.

His last major remodelling work was Cliveden again for the 2nd Duke of Sutherland, here he built a new central block after the previous building was burnt down ( 1850 – 51 ), rising to three floors in the Italianate Style, the lowest floor had arch headed windows, the upper two floors have giant Ionic pilasters, he also designed the parterre's below the house, little of Barry's interiors survived later remodeling.

Furthermore, Ionian is accented on the antepenult (), and Ionia on the penult (); also the proper adjective for Ionia is Ionic, not Ionian.

In a more broad sense, it could be used to describe all speakers of the Ionic dialect, which also included the populations of Euboea, the Cyclades and many colonies founded by Ionian colonists.

Hexastyle was also applied to Ionic temples, such as the prostyle porch of the sanctuary of Athena on the Erechtheum, at the Acropolis of Athens.

However, the central building also has an Ionic colonnade on either side of the central passageway between the western ( outer ) Doric colonnade and the gate wall.

The northernmost temple is next in size and also Ionic, and is generally assumed to be the temple of Janus which is mentioned in the written sources, and is usually dated to about 90 BC.

The Ionic dialect also had a tonal aspect to it that lends a natural melodic quality to the recitation.

A Greek religious temple of the Ionic order is also visible at the nearby site of Jandial ( 650 meters from Sirkap ), but there is a possibility that it may have been dedicated to a Zoroastrian cult.

Ionic polymers also have a low electromechanical coupling.

The exterior was re-clad in yellow brick and a three bay recessed Ionic portico added on the north front, a tetrastyle Ionic portico was added on the south front, within he added the octagonal domed lobby, also by Holland are the ground floor rooms on the south front library ( Wedgwood room ), saloon and drawing room, and on the east front the dining room, all in the Adam style.

Most of these are known from inscriptions, but a few of them, principally Aeolic ( Lesbic ), Doric and Ionic, are also represented in the literary canon alongside the dominant Attic form of literary Greek.

This dialect includes also the earliest Greek prose, that of Heraclitus and Ionic philosophers, Hecataeus and logographers, Herodotus, Democritus, and Hippocrates.

According to Strabo, Ionic is the same as Attic and Aeolic the same as Doric-Outside the Isthmus, all Greeks were Aeolians except the Athenians, the Megarians and the Dorians who live about Parnassus-In the Peloponnese, Achaeans were also Aeolians but only Eleans and Arcadians continued to speak Aeolic.