Wallace A. Ross same year. In 1959, Ross founded the American Television Commercials Festival and The Clio Awards, and he served as the Managing Director of the Festival until 1971. The name "Clio" means the proclaimer, glorifier and celebrator of accomplishments, and is the name of the Ancient Greek Muse of History. The design of the statuette given to winners of the Clio was inspired by the Brancusi sculpture called "Bird in Space," which Ross originally viewed at the New York Museum of Modern Art. Ross held a contest to choose the name for the statue, and "Clio" was the name suggested by
Ancient Greek phonology at the end of a phrase. This usage was standardized in the Byzantine era, and is used in modern editions of Ancient Greek texts. Here it might mark a lowered version of a high-pitched syllable. Greek underwent many sound changes. Some occurred between Proto-Indo-European (PIE) and Proto-Greek (PGr), some between the Mycenaean Greek and Ancient Greek periods, which are separated by about 300 years (the Greek Dark Ages), and some during the Koine Greek period. Some sound changes occurred only in particular Ancient Greek dialects, not in others, and certain dialects, such as Boeotian and Laconian, underwent sound changes similar