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Abdera

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Abdera or Avdira , town, NE Greece, in Thrace, near the mouth of the Mesta River. It is a small agricultural settlement. Founded (c.650 BC) by colonists from Clazomenae, it was destroyed by the Thracians (c.550 BC) and rebuilt (c.500 BC) by refugees from Teos. The town passed to Macedon in 352 BC and in 198 BC became a free city under Roman rule. The term Abderite was used by the ancient Greeks as a synonym for stupid. However, the philosophers Protagoras, Leucippus, and Democritus lived there. Author not available, ABDERA. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2... Read more
Abdera
Abdera a Greek city in Thrace whose inhabitants were proverbial for their stupidity. Read more
Abdera
...Thasos . First settled in the 7th century , it was colonized a second time 540 . A prosperous member of the Delian League , it was crippled in the 4th century by Thracian invasions. It was the home of Democritus and Protagoras . Abdera Abdera Abdera Read more

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Das dritte Auge
; ...eine literarische Vorlage von Christoph Martin Wieland zurckgreifende filmische Parabel spielt in der antiken Schildbrgerstadt Abdera. Diese Stadt, mit Marktplatz, Rathaus, Freitreppe, Gassen und diversen Husern, hatte der Szenenbildner Dieter Adam komplett... Read more
The Style Invitational; Week 563: Take Two
; ...Aromatherapy The horse who beat Smarty Jones The next Redskins season William Hung of "American Idol" Cicada Fricassee The Eunuch of Abdera $2.39 The next Harry Potter movie Ivory Soap The ranch in Crawford, Tex. A pile of odd socks Mackerel ice cream The Stanley... Read more
Ancient & modern
; ...saying, but who cares about that? In one of his dialogues Plato describes how the great thinker Protagoras (490420 Bc) from Abdera (northern Greece) hits Athens, with admiring retinue. Socrates' young friend Hippocrates is terribly excited at this and begs... Read more
The Style Invitational; Week 567: A Running Gag
; ...between William Hung and the Eunuch of Abdera: Wait . . . it's coming to me . . . hold...Village) Kerry's smile and the Eunuch of Abdera: No one accuses the eunuch of faking it...Russell Beland, Springfield) The Eunuch of Abdera and the next Redskins season: We don't... Read more
Robert Burton's geography of melancholy.
; ...England (New York and London: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1948), pp. 597-98. 11 Vicari, p. 41. 12 Democritus, the philosopher of Abdera (ca. 460 B.C.), was a writer on geography himself, and Strabo mentions him as an Observing map collectors in 1570, Dr. John... Read more
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; ...a collection of letters that may be the first epistolary novel. According to this fiction (letter 17), since the citizens of Abdera thought Democritus had succumbed to madness because he laughed incessantly, they called Hippocrates for help. When the famous... Read more
POINT AND CLICK YOUR WAY TO GREECE
; ...the screen. Click on the arrow next to Museums, Monuments and Archaeological Sites for facts and photos on everything from the Abdera Archaeological Museum to the archaeological site of the Venetian Fortress of Zakynthos. Take a look around Athens and the rest... Read more
The Jewish Temple: A Non-Biblical Sourcebook
; ...Accordingly, he considers relevant passages from Hecataeus of Abdera, Aristeas, Ben Sira in Hebrew, Ben Sira in Greek, Jubilees...Hayward begins with the fragments attributed to Hecataeus of Abdera (preserved in Josephus, Contra Apion 1.187, 197-99). After discussing... Read more
Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus: Hellenistic Histories and the Date of the Pentateuch
; ...other hand, one does not learn much from it. To be sure, one learns many things (an entire chapter introduced me to Hecataeus of Abdera), but the one thing the book teaches-that the Pentateuch was written around 270 B.C.E.-is indefensible and uninteresting. The... Read more
The Jewish Temple: A Non-Biblical Sourcebook.(Review)
; ...p. 5). The texts chosen include the writings of Hecataeus of Abdera, Aristeas, both the Hebrew and Greek versions of Ben Sira, Jubilees...first text to be considered is Josephus' summary of Hecataeus of Abdera, a Greek philosopher who lived ca. 300 B.C.E. (Contra Apionem... Read more

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