Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Places

    Abdera

    place · 5 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages

    in the texts

    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    Greek coastal town on the march route, site of Megacreon's ironic saying about the cost of hosting Xerxes' army.

    It was then that a very apt saying was uttered by one Megacreon of Abdera.
    chapter 7
    Near Abdera Xerxes passed no well-known lake, but crossed the river Nestus where it flows into the sea.
    chapter 7
    The people of Abdera would then have had no choice but to flee before Xerxes ' coming, or to perish most miserably if they awaited him.
    chapter 7

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    Abdera, home city used to identify Democritus.

    while certain others, exalting themselves, force themselves to find slanders against the words, devising contentious inquiries — hunters of little phrases, zealots of paltry arts, "wranglers and twisters of thongs," as that man of Abdera says:
    book 1

    On the Treaty with AlexanderClassical · Greek

    City mentioned rhetorically as an inferior comparison to Athens in political influence.

    The greatest humiliation, however, that we have suffered is that all the other Greeks and barbarians dread your enmity, but these upstarts alone can make you despise yourselves, sometimes by persuasion, sometimes by force, as if Abdera or Maronea, and not Athens, were the scene of their political activities.
    on the treaty with alexander

    ProtagorasClassical · Greek

    A city in Thrace, named as Protagoras' native city.

    Abdera.
    protagoras

    History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

    City marking the western end of the Odrysian kingdom's coastal territory as measured by Thucydides.

    The extent then of the Odrysian dominion, taking the line of its sea-coast, was from the city of Abdera to the Euxine, up to the mouth of the Danube.
    chapter 2