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IONIA
(eye-OH-nee-uh)
An
ancient region of western Asia Minor (modern Turkey) Common
clues: Ancient
Greek region; Greek peninsula; Part of Asia Minor; Ancient Aegean
region; Where Ephesus was; Part of ancient Turkey Crossword
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Itinerary in Ionia
Ionia
was an ancient region of southwestern coastal Anatolia (in
present-day Turkey, the region nearest İzmir,) on the Aegean
Sea. It comprised a narrow coastal strip from Phocaea in the
north near the mouth of the river Hermus (now the Gediz), to
Miletus in the south near the mouth of the river Maeander, and
included the islands of Chios and Samos.
Ionia
has laid the world under its debt not only by giving birth to a
long roll of distinguished men of letters and science (see Ionian
School of Philosophy), but also by originating the distinct
school of art which prepared the way for the brilliant artistic
development of Athens in the 5th century BC. This school
flourished between 700 and 500 BC, and is distinguished by the
fineness of workmanship and minuteness of detail with which it
treated subjects, inspired always to some extent by non-Greek
models. Naturalism is progressively obvious in its treatment,
e.g. of the human figure, but to the end it is still subservient
to convention. It has been thought that the Ionian migration from
Greece carried with it some part of a population which retained
the artistic traditions of the Mycenaean civilization, and so
caused the birth of the Ionic school; but whether this was so or
not, it is certain that from the 8th century BC onwards we find
the true spirit of Hellenic art, stimulated by commercial
intercourse with eastern civilizations, working out its
development chiefly in Ionia and its neighbouring isles. The
great names of this school are Theodorus and Rhoecus of Samos;
Bathycles of Magnesia on the Maeander; Glaucus, Melas, Micciades,
Archermus, Bupalus and Athenis of Chios. Notable works of the
school still extant are the famous archaic female statues found
on the Athenian Acropolis in 1885–1887, the seated statues
of Branchidae, the Nike of Archermus found at Delos, and the
objects in ivory and electrum found by D.G. Hogarth in the lower
strata of the Artemision at Ephesus.
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