Abdera, Thrace
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Abdera is a municipality in the Xanthi regional unit of Thrace, Greece. In classical antiquity, it was a major Greek polis on the Thracian coast.
Remains of the ancient city of Abdera.
Location of Abdera and its two successive metropolises, Clazomenae and Teos.
The west gate of classical Abdera
Democritus
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Democritus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Abdera, primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory of the universe. Democritus wrote extensively on a wide variety of topic
Abdera, Thrace
…about Abderans, who are stereotyped as stupid, superstitious, and literal-minded. Nevertheless, the city counted among its citizens the philosophers Democritus, Protagoras and Anaxarchus, historian and philosopher Hecataeus of Abdera, and the lyric poet Anacreon. Pliny the Elder speaks of Abdera as being in…
A philosopher, possibly Democritus. Casting of e Villa of the Papyri.
Democritus Among the Abderites by François-André Vincent, 1791
Charles-Antoine Coypel, Cheerful Democritus, 1746.
2020 bust of Democritus presented to the International Atomic Energy Agency by Greece