Doric order Doric order The Doric order was one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian. The Doric is most easily recognized by the simple circular capitals at the top of columns. Originating in the western Dorian region of Greece, it is the earliest and in its essence the simplest of the orders, though still with complex details in the entablature above. The Greek Doric column was fluted or smooth-surfaced, and had no base, dropping straight into the stylobate or platform on which the temple or other
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,