Ionic synonyms

The almost total absence from Homer not only of "Dorians " but of " Ionians " and even of " Hellenes "leads to the conclusion that the diagrammatic genealogy of the " sons of Hellen " is of post-Homeric date; and that it originated as an attempt to classify the Doric, Ionic and Aeolic groups of Hellenic settlements on the west coast of Asia Minor, for here alone do the three names correspond to territorial, linguistic and political divisions.

Like the temple at Phigalia, it combined the forms of all three orders - Doric, Ionic and Corinthian.

Of late years many observations have been made of the ionic charges in air.

It consisted of a large open rectangular space surrounded by an Ionic colonnade into which opened a number of shops or storehouses.