Abdera

Certain · Thrace

A Thracian coastal city that Greek humor unfairly made a byword for stupidity — and that produced Democritus, the laughing philosopher, whose atoms and void are antiquity’s most prophetic physics, and Protagoras, first and greatest of the sophists, who made man the measure of all things. Plato’s Protagoras stages the great sophist at the height of his fame.