Place

Abdera

Thrace · Modern Greece

A small city in Thrace, often mocked by Athenians as provincial. Yet Abdera produced Democritus, who imagined the entire universe as atoms moving through void.

Thinkers Connected to Abdera

Democritus

c. 460 BCE – c. 370 BCE

Atoms and void. The universe is particles in motion, and cheerfulness is the goal.

Protagoras

c. 490 BCE – c. 420 BCE

Man is the measure of all things. The first and greatest of the Sophists turned philosophy toward human judgment.

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