Ionic columns are considered to be the tallest and thinnest of the three types of columns.
Ionian attic doric.
Key difference a distinguishing feature of the doric column is that fact that they have no base.
Attic and ionic dialects together form a dialect group.
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.
Doric proper northwest doric achaean doric eastern group.
The ionic was used for smaller buildings and interiors.
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.
Doric proper northwest doric achaean doric central group.
The column itself is short stout and heavy.
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 was one of the major dialects of the classical greek language along with the ionic attic aeolic and arcado cypriot dialect groups.
The shaft of the column is fluted usually with 20 flutes while the capital is simple and flared.
Attic ionic distribution of greek dialects in magna graecia in the classical period.
The ionic order is one of the three ancient greek orders.
Aeolic arcado cypriot eastern group.
Attic ionic doric or dorian was an ancient greek dialect.
Roman historian vitruvius compared this delicate order to a female form in contrast to the stockier male doric order.
It is called ionic because it developed in the ionian islands in the 6th century b c.
Several lyric and epigrammatic poets wrote in this dialect such as ibycus of rhegium and leonidas of tarentum.