Philosopher
Ionic Greek
Overview
Ionian or Ionic Greek (Ancient Greek: Ἰωνική, romanized: Iōnikḗ) was a subdialect of the Eastern or Attic–Ionic dialect group of Ancient Greek. On the basis of inscriptions, three subdialects of Ionic may be discerned. The Ionic group traditionally comprises three dialectal varieties that were spoken in Euboea (West Ionic), the northern Cyclades (Central Ionic), and from c. 1000 BC onward in Asiatic Ionia (East Ionic), where Ionian colonists from Athens founded their cities. Ionic was the base of several literary language forms of the Archaic and Classical periods, both in poetry and prose. The works of Homer and Hesiod are among the most popular poetic works that were written in a literary form of the Ionic dialect, known as Epic or Homeric Greek. The oldest Greek prose, including that of Heraclitus, Herodotus, Democritus, and Hippocrates, was also written in Ionic. By the end of the 5th century BC, Ionic was supplanted by Attic, which had become the dominant dialect of the Greek world.
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Philosophers who discussed Ionic Greek
Ideas Ionic Greek discusses
- Classical Greece
- Athens
- Gospel
- Hippocrates
- Herodotus
- Homer
- Hesiod
- Heraclitus
- Italy
- Ancient Greek
- Lucian
- Chios
- Archaic Greece
- Colophon (city)
- Poseidon
- Sicily
- Aristotle
- Vowel
- Samos
- Black Sea
- Ionians
- Magna Graecia
- Ionia
- Strabo
Place in the tradition
Part of Greek language.