Ionians
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The Histories
Greek-speaking peoples of the western Anatolian coast and islands, subjugated or befriended by Croesus
This Croesus was the first foreigner whom we know who subjugated some Greeks and took tribute from them, and won the friendship of others:
Thus he made friends with the Ionians inhabiting the islands.
and when Harpagus had conquered the Ionians of the mainland, the Ionians of the islands, fearing the same fate, surrendered to Cyrus.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Greek settlers of the Asian coast and islands, culturally linked to Athens, whose naval power rose under the early Persian kings before their mainland and island cities were subjected by Cyrus and Darius.
Whence also this fashion prevailed for a long time with the elders of the Ionians, from their affinity to them.
and in the case of the Ionians, when their power had advanced to a high pitch, Cyrus and the Persian kingdom, having subdued Croesus and all within the Halys to the sea, marched against them, and reduced to bondage their cities on the mainland, as Darius afterwards did even the islands, conquering them by means of the fleet of the Phoenicians.
And the Ionians afterwards had a large navy in the time of Cyrus, the first king of the Persians, and Cambyses his son;
Orations
Greeks of Ionia, cited as devoted to luxurious food.
And he says this teaching and exhorting that good men ought to take care also of the table, since he was not inexperienced in food of every kind and in extravagance, so that the Persians and Syrians who are now agog over such things, and among the Greeks the Italiote Greeks and the Ionians, do not even come close to the abundance and luxury found in Homer.
And see those about Ionia, that they voted to accuse no one at all.
For my part I count this a splendid and blessed thing, if a man can be free among slaves and independent among subjects—a thing for which the Lydians waged many wars against the Phrygians and the Phrygians against the Lydians, and the Ionians and Dorians and all the races besides waged many wars;
Constitution of the Athenians
Greek allied peoples who revolted from Sparta's alliance to join Athens, forming the basis of its empire
but to the revolt of the Ionians from the alliance of the Lacedaemonians it was Aristides who urged them, watching for the moment when the Spartans were discredited because of Pausanias.
For which reason it was he who assessed the first tributes for the cities, in the third year after the sea-battle at Salamis, in the archonship of Timosthenes, and he swore the oaths to the Ionians, that they should have the same enemy and friend, on which terms they sank the lumps of iron in the sea.
When Ion settled among them, then for the first time they were called Ionians.
Ion
The people who, per Athena's prophecy, will settle both shores of the strait between Europe and Asia and be named after Ion.
and in honour of Ion’s name shall they be called Ionians and win them high renown.
Iliad
Achaean contingent described by their long tunics, defending the ships.
The Boeotians and the Ionians with their long tunics, the Locrians, the men of Phthia, and the famous force of the Epeans could hardly stay Hektor as he rushed on towards the ships, nor could they drive him from them, for he was as a wall of fire.
Hymn 3 to Delian and Pythian Apollo
The Ionians are the worshippers who assemble on Delos to honor Apollo with family processions, contests, dance, and song.
for there the long robed Ionians gather in your honor with their children and shy wives:
Panegyricus
Greek-speaking colonists of Asia Minor, originally settled from Athens, later induced by Sparta to revolt and then betrayed to Persia.
and we may well blame the Lacedaemonians because, although in the beginning they entered upon the war with the avowed intention of freeing the Hellenes, in the end they delivered so many of them into bondage, and because they induced the Ionians to revolt from Athens, the mother city from which the Ionians emigrated and by whose influence they were often preserved from destruction, and then betray …
Therefore, the Ionians deserve to be commended because, when their sanctuaries had been burned, they invoked the wrath of Heaven upon any who should disturb the ruins or should desire to restore their shrines as they were of old;
Symposium
Group of soldiers on campaign who observe Socrates standing in thought overnight.
The end of it was that in the evening some of the Ionians after they had supped— this time it was summer—brought out their mattresses and rugs and took their sleep in the cool;
De Pallio
People cited as founding new cities in Asia under Neleus.
So too the Ionians, companions of Neleus, furnish Asia with new cities;
Anabasis
Greek cities in Ionia contested between Tissaphernes and Cyrus.
For, in fact, the Ionian cities had originally belonged to Tissaphernes, by gift of the King, but at that time all of them except Miletus had revolted and gone over to Cyrus.
Meanwhile he sent to the King and urged, on the ground that he was his brother, that these Ionian cities should be given to him instead of remaining under the rule of Tissaphernes, and his mother co-operated with him in this.
The people of Miletus also were planning to do the very same thing, namely, to go over to Cyrus, but Tissaphernes, finding out about it in time, put some of them to death and banished others.