Abdera
place · 5 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
ابديرة
in the texts
The Histories
Greek coastal town on the march route, site of Megacreon's ironic saying about the cost of hosting Xerxes' army.
The boundary of the lions' country is the river Nestus which flows through Abdera and the river Achelous which flows through Acarnania.
It was then that a very apt saying was uttered by one Megacreon of Abdera.
Near Abdera Xerxes passed no well-known lake, but crossed the river Nestus where it flows into the sea.
Stromata
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:
On the Treaty with Alexander
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.
Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad
The Thracian city given as the birthplace of Democritus.
He is a famous philosopher, born at “Abdera” in “Thrace” in the fifth century before Christ, that is, in the year 470 B.
History of the Peloponnesian War
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.