IOLITE : see CORDIERITE.
of Chios, Greek poet, lived in the age of Pericles. At an early age he went to Athens, where he made the acquaintance of Aeschylus. He was an admirer of Cimon and an opponent of Pericles. Later he met Sophocles in Chios at the time of the Samian war. Aristophanes' Peace, 83o ff., seems to show that he died before 421. His first tragedy was produced between
B.C.; and in 429 he was third to Euripides and Iophon. In a sub sequent year when he gained both the tragic and dithyrambic prizes, he gave a jar of Chian wine to every Athenian citizen (Athanaeus p. 3). According to the scholiast on Aristophanes
(loc. cit.) he composed comedies, dithyrambs, epigrams, paeans, hymns, scolia, encomia and elegies. He also wrote an account of the antiquities of Chios and bramutat, recollections of visitors to the island.
See C. Nieberding, De lonis Chii vita (1836, containing the frag ments) ; F. Allegre, De lone Chio (189o), an exhaustive monograph ; and Bentley, Epistola ad Millium.