Abderites or Abderite may refer to:
*People associated with the ancient city of
Abdera, Thrace
Abdera () is a municipality in the Xanthi regional unit of Thrace, Greece. In classical antiquity, it was a major Greek ''polis'' on the Thracian coast.
The ancient polis is to be distinguished from the municipality, which was named in its honor ...
*Adherents of the philosophical
school of Abdera
Atomism (from Greek , ''atomon'', i.e. "uncuttable, indivisible") is a natural philosophy proposing that the physical universe is composed of fundamental indivisible components known as atoms.
References to the concept of atomism and its atoms a ...
*Abderite, a reference to
Democritus
Democritus (; el, Δημόκριτος, ''Dēmókritos'', meaning "chosen of the people"; – ) was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Abdera, primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory of the universe. No ...
, native of Abdera; later acquired the generic meaning of "scoffer"
*Abderites, archetypical fools in classical Greece, akin of the
Wise Men of Gotham
Wise Men of Gotham is the early name given to the people of the village of Gotham, Nottinghamshire, in allusion to an incident where they supposedly feigned idiocy to avoid a Royal visit.
Legend
The story goes that King John intended to travel ...
*The satirical book ''Die Abderiten, eine sehr wahrscheinliche Geschichte'' by
Christoph Martin Wieland
Christoph Martin Wieland (; 5 September 1733 – 20 January 1813) was a German poet and writer. He is best-remembered for having written the first ''Bildungsroman'' (''Geschichte des Agathon''), as well as the epic ''Oberon'', which formed the ba ...
*
''Abderites'' (mammal), a genus of
Paucituberculata
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from South America
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