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In Greek mythology Abderus or Abderos () was a divine hero, reputed a son of Hermes by some accounts, and eponym of Abdera, Thrace.

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Anaxarchus was born at Abdera in Thrace.
Abdera was a wealthy city, the third richest in the League, due to its status as a prime port for trade with the interior of Thrace and the Odrysian kingdom.
The air of Abdera was proverbial in Athens as causing stupidity, but the city counted among its citizens the philosophers Democritus, Protagoras and Anaxarchus, and historian and philosopher Hecataeus of Abdera.
The municipality Abdera was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 3 former municipalities, that became municipal units:
Heracles founded the city of Abdera in Thrace in his memory, where he was honored with athletic games.
The first explicitly materialistic system was formed by Leucippus ( 5th century BCE ) and his pupil Democritus of Abdera ( 460-370 BCE ) from Thrace.
* Democritus was a Greek philosopher and mathematician from Abdera, Thrace ( c. 460 – 370 BC.
* Protagoras was a Greek philosopher from Abdera, Thrace ( c. 490 – 420 BC.
Around the time that The Clouds was produced, Democritus at Abdera was developing an atomistic theory of the cosmos and Hippocrates at Cos was establishing an empirical and science-like approach to medicine.
A remarkable statement mentioned by Diogenes Laertius ( c. 250 AD ) is the earliest ( or at least one of the earliest ) references about plausible centenarian longevity given by a scientist, the astronomer Hipparchus of Nicea ( c. 185 – c. 120 BC ), who, according to the doxographer, was assured that the philosopher Democritus of Abdera ( c. 470 / 460 – c. 370 / 360 BC ) lived 109 years.
Hecataeus of Abdera and others believed Hyperborea was Britain ( see below ).
Hyperborea was identified with Britain first by Hecataeus of Abdera in the 4th century BC, as in a preserved fragment by Diodorus Siculus:
* Democritus: he was from the village Abdera which is about 20km from Xanthi
* Protagoras: he was from the village Abdera
* Hecateus: he was from the village Abdera
Among the ancient Greeks Boeotia was the home of fools ; among the Thracians, Abdera ; among the ancient Jews, Nazareth ; among modern Jews, Chełm ; among the ancient Asiatics, Phrygia.
Hecataeus of Abdera ( or of Teos ) was a Greek historian and sceptic philosopher who flourished in the 4th century BC.
Two Greek philosophers, Leucippus ( first half of the 5th century BC ) and Democritus of Abdera ( lived about 410 BC ) came up with the notion that there were two real entities: atoms, which were small indivisible particles of matter, and the void, which was the empty space in which matter was located.

Abdera and on
Abdera is a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church in the province of Rhodope on the southern coast of Thrace, now called Bouloustra.
* Hellenic Ministry of Culture on Abdera
Philip also attacked Abdera and Maronea, on the Thracian seaboard ( 354 – 353 ).
Identified authors on whose works he drew include Hecataeus of Abdera, Ctesias of Cnidus, Ephorus, Theopompus, Hieronymus of Cardia, Duris of Samos, Diyllus, Philistus, Timaeus, Polybius, and Posidonius.
Hecateaus of Abdera also wrote that the Hyperboreans had a ' circular temple ' on their island, and some scholars have identified this with Stonehenge.
Hecataeus of Abdera collated all the stories about the Hyperboreans current in the fourth century BC and published a lengthy treatise on them, lost to us, but noted by Diodorus Siculus ( ii. 47. 1 – 2 ).
Towards the southeast, Punic influence spread from the Carthaginian cities on the coast: New Carthage ( Roman Cartago Nova, modern Cartagena ), Abdera and Malaca ( Málaga ).
The earliest non-Biblical account of the Exodus is in the writings of the Greek author Hecataeus of Abdera: the Egyptians blame a plague on foreigners and expel them from the country, whereupon Moses, their leader, takes them to Canaan, where he founds the city of Jerusalem.
In " The antiquities of Egypt ", first chapter of Bibliotheca historica by Diodorus Siculus, which is based mainly on Aegyptiaca of Hecataeus of Abdera, Greek and Egyptian mythology have been syncretized.

Abdera and coast
In 376 BC, a large band of Triballi under King Hales crossed Mount Haemus and advanced as far as Abdera ; they had backing from Maroneia and were preparing to besiege the city, when Chabrias appeared off the coast with the Athenian fleet and organized a reconciliation.

Abdera and Thrace
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, 1976: " Abdera, Thrace, Greece "
Prominent Sophists include Protagoras ( 490-420 BCE ) from Abdera in Thrace, Gorgias ( 487-376 BCE ) from Leontini in Sicily, Hippias ( 485-415 BCE ) from Elis in the Peloponnesos, and Prodicus ( 465-390 BCE ) from the island of Ceos.
* 650 BC: The town of Abdera in Thrace is founded by colonists from Clazomenae.
* 544 BC — People of Teos migrate to Abdera, Thrace to escape the yoke of Persia.
* 650 BC — The town of Abdera in Thrace is founded by colonists from Clazomenae.
* Philip II has Abdera in Thrace sacked.
* Abdera, Thrace ( in Ancient Greece a synonym for Gotham )

Abdera and Thasos
* The Athenian general Thrasybulus recaptures Abdera and Thasos.

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Location of Abdera and its two successive metropolis es, Clazomenae and Teos.
But its prosperity dates from 544 BC, when the majority of the people of Teos ( including the poet Anacreon ) migrated to Abdera to escape the Persian yoke ( Herodotus i. 168 ).
In 513 BC and 512 BC, the Persians conquered Abdera.
In 492 BC, the Persians again conquered Abdera, this time under Darius I.
The municipal unit Abdera is subdivided into the communities Abdera, Mandra, Myrodato and Nea Kessani.
The community Abdera consists of the settlements Abdera, Giona, Lefkippos, Pezoula and Skala.
" In addition to the Judeo-Roman or Judeo-Hellenic historians Artapanus, Eupolemus, Josephus, and Philo, a few non-Jewish historians including Hecataeus of Abdera ( quoted by Diodorus Siculus ), Alexander Polyhistor, Manetho, Apion, Chaeremon of Alexandria, Tacitus and Porphyry also make reference to him.
* 500 BC — Refugees from Teos resettle Abdera.

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