The ionic order is one of the three ancient greek orders.
Ionian attic doric.
Attic ionic doric or dorian was an ancient greek dialect.
The ionic was used for smaller buildings and interiors.
Doric was one of the major dialects of the classical greek language along with the ionic attic aeolic and arcado cypriot dialect groups.
The main characteristic of doric was the preservation of proto indo european aː long α which in attic ionic became ɛː η.
Doric proper northwest doric achaean doric eastern group.
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.
The ionian dialect of greek was closely related to attic and was spoken in ionia and on many of the aegean islands.
The column itself is short stout and heavy.
It is called ionic because it developed in the ionian islands in the 6th century b c.
Key difference a distinguishing feature of the doric column is that fact that they have no base.
So it differs from the doric which arose before the ionian greater liberty in the choice of proportions and the lack of parts that are not subjected to the decor.
Doric proper northwest doric achaean doric central group.
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.
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.
Attic ionic distribution of greek dialects in magna graecia in the classical period.
Attic and ionic dialects together form a dialect group.
The shaft of the column is fluted usually with 20 flutes while the capital is simple and flared.