Ionic order Ionic order The Ionic order forms one of the three classical orders of classical architecture, the other two canonic orders being the Doric and the Corinthian. There are two lesser orders: the Tuscan (a plainer Doric), and the rich variant of Corinthian called the composite order, both added by 16th-century Italian architectural writers, based on Roman practice. Of the three canonic orders, the Ionic order has the narrowest columns. The Ionic capital is characterized by the use of volutes. The Ionic columns normally stand on a base which separates the shaft of the column from the stylobate or platform; the
Doric Greek "ka" ~ Attic–Ionic "an". Temporal adverbs in "-ka" ~ Attic–Ionic "-te". Locative adverbs in "-ei" ~ Attic/Koine "-ou". The aorist and future of verbs in "-izō", "-azō" has "x" (versus Attic/Koine "s"). Similarly "k" before suffixes beginning with "t". Argive Cretan Laconian Magna Graecian Doric Aetolian-Acarnanian Delphic-Locrian Elean Epirotic Doric Greek Doric, or Dorian, was an Ancient Greek dialect. 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 some cities on the south east coast of Anatolia. Together with Northwest Greek,