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Encyclopedia Britannica



ABDERA

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 33 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: A10-ADA
ABDERA , 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 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
 . i. 168); the
chief
  coin type, a gryphon, is identical with that of Teos; the coinage is noted for the beauty and variety of its
reverse
  types. The town seems to have declined in importance after the middle of the 4th century. The air of Abdera was proverbial as causing stupidity; but among its citizens was the philosopher Democritus. The ruins of the town may still b9 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.
Miuheil. d.
deutsch
 . Inst. Athens, xii. (1887), p. 161 (Regel) ; Mem. de l'Acad. des
Inscriptions
 , icxxix. 211; K. F. Hermann, Ges. Abh. 90-III, 370 if.


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