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  Abdera, Thrace
Abdera, was a town on the coast of Thrace near the mouth of the Nestos, and almost opposite Thasos.
Its mythical foundation was attributed to Heracles, its historical to a colony from Clazomenae in the 7th century BC.
The air of Abdera was proverbial as causing stupidity; but among its citizens was the philosopher Democritus.
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 IONIAN THRACE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
In the seventh century BC Greek colonies were founded in the coastal zone of Thrace by colonists from the east Aegean islands and the Ionian cities of Asia Minor.
Abdera was only saved from total destruction by the timely intervention of the Athenian general Chabrias, and became a member of the Second Athenian League.
Abdera's decline had already begun and the demise of the now small and insignificant city was hastened by the quagmire, created in its vicinity by the floods of the river Nestos.
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 Abdera Democritus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Hecataeus of Abdera - Hecataeus of Abdera (or of Teos), Greek historian and Sceptic philosopher, flourished in the 4th century BC.
Democritus of Abdera - Democritus of Abdera The Presocratic Philosophers This volume provides a comprehensive exposition of the arguments of the Presocratics--the founding fathers of the Western philosophical tradition democritus of abdera and the first masters of rational thought.
Abdera, Thrace Abdera, was a town on the southwestern hills are the remains of the Nestos, and almost opposite Thasos.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Abdera, Thrace
Abdera (Άβδηρα) was a town on the coast of Thrace 17 km ENE of the mouth of the Nestos, and almost opposite Thasos.
The air of Abdera was proverbial in Athens as causing stupidity; but among its citizens was the philosopher Democritus, Protagoras and Hecataeus of Abdera historian and Skeptic philosopher.
Abdera is a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church in the province of Rhodope on the southern coast of Thrace, now called Bouloustra.
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 Abdera
Abdera, was a town on the coast of Thrace near the mouth of the Nestos, and not far from the Greek island Thasos., today it is a village part of the municipality of Abdera in the prefecture Xanthi in Greece.
Abdera Coin with the Gryphon, 5th century BC The town seems to have declined in importance after the middle of the 4th century.
Abdera is a titular see in the province of Rhodope on the southern coast of Thrace, now called Bouloustra, Boloustra, Voloustra or Vouloustra (gr.
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 Thrace
Thrace is a historical and geographic area in south-east Europe spread over southern Bulgaria, north-eastern Greece, and European Turkey.
Thrace borders on three seas: the Black Sea, the Aegean Sea and the Sea of Marmara.
The region was conquered by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC and was ruled by the kingdom of Macedon for a century and a half.
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 Thrace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
In 1878 most of Thrace was incorporated into the semi-autonomous Ottoman provice of Eastern Rumelia, which united with Bulgaria in 1886.
The rest of Thrace was divided between Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey at the beginning of the 20th century, Following the Balkan Wars and World War I.
Democritus was a philosopher and mathematician that lived in Abdera, Thrace from about 460 BC to 370 BC.
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He was born in 460 BC in the Thracian city of Abdera, a place renowned for its wealth and its high intellectual level.
He is known to have studied with Leucippus, and Aristotle cites both teacher and student as founders of the atomic school: later, after the pupil had outstripped the master, his name stands alone as sole representative of the school.
His father was from a noble family and of great wealth, and contributed largely towards the entertainment of the army of Xerxes on his return to Asia.
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 Democritus
Democritus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (born at Abdera in Thrace around 460 BC; lived to be very old, but died at an unknown date).
Democritus was a student of Leucippus, and co-originator of the belief that all matter is made up of various imperishable indivisible elements which he called atoms.
Democritus of Abdera (http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Democritus.html) biography page by the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.
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 Apache Abdera
Apache Abdera is an effort to produce a high-performance and functionally complete implementation of the IETF Atom Syndication Format and Atom Publishing Protocol specifications.
The ancient city of Abdera, Thrace was the birthplace and home of the pre-Socratic philosopher Democritus, co-originator of the theory of "Atoms".
Abdera's flexible configuration mechanism is described in detail in the "Developer's Guide".
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 Ancient coinage of Thrace
Dicaea was an ancient seaport not far from Abdera, with which it appears to have been in close commercial relations.
Abdera now rose to be a place of considerable importance and wealth, on which account it was selected by Xerxes as one of his resting places in his progress along the northern shores of the Aegean.
In B.C. 408 Abdera, then in a flourishing condition, was brought by the Athenian general Thrasybulus under the dominion of Athens.
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 Abdera, Thrace - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Abdera, Thrace - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Abdera, city of ancient Thrace, near the mouth of the Néstos River, diagonally opposite the island of Thásos.
He took part in the founding of Abdera, in Thrace, and...
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 Abdera — Infoplease.com
Abdera - Abdera or Avdira, town, NE Greece, in Thrace, near the mouth of the Mesta River.
Abdera - Abdera Abde′ra A maritime town of Thrace, said in fable to have been founded by Abdera,...
Protagoras of Abdera - Protagoras of Abdera was the first who took the name of “Sophist.” (B.C. Protagoras - Protagoras, c.490–c.421 B.C., Greek philosopher of Abdera, one of the more distinguished...
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 Your Abdera, Thrace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Abdera was a tοwո οո the cοast οƭ Thrace ոear the mοưth οƭ the Nestοs ; aոd aɭmοst οppοsіte Thasοs · Its mythіcaɭ ƭοưոdatіοո was attrіbưted tο Heracɭes
The aіr οƭ Abdera was prοverbіaɭ іո Atheոs as caưsіոg stưpіdіty; bưt amοոg іts cіtіzeոs was the phіɭοsοpher Demοcrіtưs ; Prοtagοras aոd Hecataeưs οƭ Abdera hіstοrіaո aոd Sƙeptіc phіɭοsοpher
It was repeatedɭy sacƙed; as a vaɭưabɭe prіze: by the Trіbaɭɭі (376 BC); Phіɭіp II οƭ Macedοո ; 350 BC; Lysіmachοs οƭ Thrace' the Seɭeưcіds; the Ptοɭemіes; aոd agaіո tο the Macedοոіaոs
zalien.info /1906   (250 words)

  
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GREEK COINS Thrace No.: 25 Estimate: £ 1500.- Aenos, Tetradrachm, c.374/3-372/1 BC, head of Hermes facing, three quarters to left, wearing petasos, rev AINION, goat standing right, at her feet, laurel-wreath.
Kings of Thrace, Lysimachus (323–281 BC), Lampsacus, 297/6–282/1 BC, deified Alexander with horn of...
Kings of Thrace, Lysimachus (323–281 BC), Ephesus, deified Alexander with horn of Ammon / Athena Nicephorus (Müller 432).
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 Democritus
Democritus was a Greek Philosopher who lived between 470 BC and 380 BC in Abdera, Thrace; a northern territory of Greece.
He was born to a wealthy noble family in Abdera, Thrace.
According to the law of Abdera, if a citizen wasted his inheritance and had no means of support, he would be denied of any burial rites.
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 DEMOCRITUS -FRAGMENTS - FULL TEXT - of Abdera The Presocratic Philosophers - by G. S. Kirk and J. E. Raven. The ...
Democritus was born at Abdera, Thrace, sometime around 458 BCE.
Democritus was born into considerable wealth in the Thracian city of Abdera in the north-eastern corner of Greece in around 460BC.
2 'Democritus of Abdera', by JJ O'Connor and EF Robertson.
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 Artful Surgery
Excavated at the Clazomenean colony at Abdera in Thrace, this woman's remains, which date to the second half of the seventh century B.C., provide the earliest evidence of cranial surgery in Greece.
Her remains, which were excavated at Abdera by Eudokia Skarlatidou of the Greek Archaeological Service and which I have had the privilege to study, provide incontrovertible evidence that two centuries before Hippocrates drew breath, surgical practices described in the treatise On Head Wounds were already in use.
While the reconstruction of the patient's treatment is in part conjecture, based on the Hippocratic text itself, the size and shape of the surgical intervention and use of the rasp rather than trepanation is certain from traces on the bone itself.
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 Thrace, Abdera, ancient coins index with thumbnails - WildWinds.com
Abdera is colony of Klazomenai in ca.385 - 375 B.C. AE 17, 3.84 g.
Thrace, Abdera, AR Stater or Tetradrachm on Aegean standard.
Claudius & Divus Augustus AE21 of Abdera, Thrace.
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 A Manual of Greek Literature, page 112   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
We come next to anacreon ('Am/cpeW), whose poetry may be con­sidered as akin to that of Alcaeus and Sappho, although he was an Ionian, a native of Teos, and his genius had an entirely different tone and bent.
Hence the account of his emigration to Abdera is rejected by some critics.
Simonides wrote two epitaphs upon him, the second of which appears to say clearly that he was buried at Teos, but there is also a tradition that, after his return to Teos, he fled a second time to Abdera, in consequence of the revolt of Histiseus.
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 Ancient Greek Coins
The small 6th and 5th century fractions from Ionia, Thrace, Mysia and Macedonia come from a single hoard, recently unearthed.
Gorgeous gold stater, Koson, king in Thrace, minted by Brutus during the 1st Roman civil war, mid-1st century BC.
Koson was one of the Thracian Kings at that time (very little is known about him but for the fact that he survived the civil wars and died in 29 BC), and it was under his authority that these coins were issued.
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 Abdera, Thrace - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Its mythical foundation was attributed to Heracles, its historical to a colony from Clazomenae in the 7th century B.C. But its prosperity dates from 544 B.C., when the majority of the people of Teos migrated to Abdera after the Ionian revolt to escape the Persian yoke (Herod.
The ruins of the town may still be seen on Cape Balastra; they cover seven small hills, and extend from an eastern to a western harbour; on the S.W. hills are the remains of the medieval settlement of Polystylon.
This page was last modified 12:20, 15 Sep 2006.
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 Teos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
C., the citizens of Teos, along with those of Phocæa, were the only ones not to submit to the Persians.
Two famous natives of Teos were the Lyric poet Anacreon (6 C BC) and the Peripatetic philosopher and bibliophile Apellikon (1 C BC) who bought Aristotle 's library for an exorbitant sum and carried back to Athens the precious collection which was usurpated by dictator Sulla (86 BC) who took it to Rome.
he site of Abdera was settled in the middle of the 7th century B.C. by colonists from Clazomenae and in 545 B.C. by the inhabitants of Teos.
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 wikipedia.org - Abdera, Thrace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The air of Abdera was proverbial in Athens as causing stupidity; but among its citizens was the philosopher Democritus, Protagoras and Hecataeus of Abdera historian and Sƙeptic philosopher.
The ruins of the town may still be seen on Cape Balastra ; they cover seven small hills, and extend from an eastern to a western harbour; on the southwestern hills are the remains of the medieval settlement of Polystylon.
It was repeatedly sacƙed, as a valuable prize: by the Triballi (376 BC), Philip II of Macedon, 350 BC; Lysimachos of Thrace' the Seleucids, the Ptolemies, and again to the Macedonians.
wiki1.info /1906   (797 words)

  
 Greek Coins
It is a magnificent monument of powerful ruler of Thrace, possibly Sitalk, c.
This helped gave rise to trade and made Ephesus the major seacoast city with a busy commercial harbor of the times, controlling over 500 nearby towns and populating 250,000 people until the Persians and then later Alexander the Great conquered her.
Philip gradually captured all the cities of Thrace - Abdera, Maroneia, Ainos, Perinthos, Byzantion - and with his expeditions against the Scyths established Macedonian rule throughout the territory: Many Thracians took part in Alexander the Great's campaign, such as the Odrysian Sitalkes who followed Alexander with cavalry, peltasts and lightly armed foot-soldiers.
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 Abdera
For more information on the structure of entries and links available from them, read the notice at the beginning of the index of persons and locations.
Abdera was founded by the citizens of Teos, a city of Ionia south of Clazomenæ, fleeing their city when the Medeans of Harpagus, a general of Cyrus the Great, took it around 545B.
Abdera is the birthplace of Protagoras and of Democritus.
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 Academic Paper on A biography of Democritus of Abdera from the Hellenistic Age. It has atomic theory in it and ...
Academic Paper on A biography of Democritus of Abdera from the Hellenistic Age.
A biography of Democritus of Abdera from the Hellenistic Age.
Democritus was born in about 460 BC in Abdera, Thrace, Greece.
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 Abdera.htm
Abdera was a town on the coast of Thrace near the mouth of the Néstos River.
Abdera was a prosperous member of the Delian League in the 5th century but was crippled early in the 4th century BCE by Thracian incursions and declined sharply in importance.
The philosophers Protagoras and Democritus were citizens of Abdera.
www.worldcoincatalog.com /AC/C2/Greece/AG/CS/CSG/Abdera/Abdera.htm   (281 words)

  
 The brilliant Democritus
With this money, he was able to travel the world: Egypt, where he learned geometry, Persia, India, where he learned ascetisism and mysticism, and then to Athens.
He finally returned home to Abdera to retire, but was without any funds.
He read one of his 70 works to the assembly of citizens in his home town, and they voted him a stipend on which to retire.
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 The Abderites
In Bikwil January 1998 The Man from Abdera posed the question and declared the book immortalising the town and the foibles of its inhabitants "one of the funniest.
the ancient Greek town of Abdera in Thrace, inhabitants of which (with the exception of Democritus) were noted for their narrow-mindedness".
The book of Abdera in Wieland's original German and Christmas's English translation may well be one of the funniest to have emerged to entertain 18th, 19th and 20th century readers.
www.bikwil.com /Vintage06/Abderites.html   (1497 words)

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