Abdera

Protagoras of Abdera, and Prodicus of Ceos, and a host of others, have only to whisper to their contemporaries: `You will never be able to manage either your own house or your own State until you appoint us to be your ministers of education'-- and this ingenious device of theirs has such an effect in making them love them that their companions all but carry them about on their shoulders.

This genre eventually associated, with significant differences of degree among the authors, the "madness" (generic term given to the tragic experience, renamed "psychosis" in its description by psychodynamic psychiatry) to genius/creativity; this tradition dates back to Aristotle in his famous Problemata XXX, and also to Hippocrates in his discussion on the alleged madness of the philosopher Democritus of Abdera, whose historical revival facilitated the celebration of a kind of "heroic madness" and his normative capacity for self-improvement in Nietzsche, which would be confused with his own philosophical production.

Nesse aspecto, a obra de Democrito de Abdera, embora somente tenha sobrevivido ate a atualidade por meio de fragmentos, de certa forma apresenta interessantes fundamentos da essencia do regime democratico.

Chapter 9 makes use of Manetho and Hecataeus of Abdera to date the story of the exodus from Egypt in the Hellenistic period.

El AaAaAeA nico libro de cuentos de Leopol Lugones publicado en Portugal, Os Cavalos de Abdera (Vega, 1988, 82 aAaAaAeA~os despuAaAaAeA@s del original), incluye varias citas de Borges.

One of them, Democritus of Abdera, Greece, answered in 465 B.C.

Lopez Facal, Javier (2011): "Entre Democrito de Abdera y Peter Higgs", en El Pais, secc.