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The Mythology and history chose Hercules and Timisios as the founders
of the town of Avdera. The truth is only one, Avdera has been traveling to the
eternity since 556 B.C. dressed with the light of civilization.
The first to come to the region were the Clazomenians in 656/652 B.C.
Under the leadership of Timesios, they founded their own city and fortified it
with strong walls. This colony gradually declined and Avdera was refounded by
Teian settlers in 545 B.C.
Given that Teian settlement was located on a site, which was advantageous
for trade with the Thracian hinterland and more over featured two harbours and
a rich arable land, it shortly turned out to be one of the most flourishing cities
in the northern Aegean. Typical feature of the city's great commercial activity
was the looming activity of minting. In the city there was a royal mint where
coins of the Great Alexander were produced. The finding of the coins of Avdera,
bearing the emblem of a griffin, in places as remote as Egypt,
Syria and Mesopotamia,
manifests the scale and the dynamics of the city trade.
In the flourishing city of Avdera, which had been greatly influenced
by the cultural life of Ionia,
well-known poets, sophists and philosophers were born and lived. Democritos, the
great materialist philosopher, who founded the atom theory, the sophist Protagoras,
the spirit teacher Leukippos, Anaxarchos, Hecataeos the grammarian, Vion the mathematician
are some of the significant spirit men of Avdera.
This text (extract) is cited October 2003 from the Municipality
of Avdera tourist pamphlet.
Teos also is situated on a peninsula; and it has a harbor. Anacreon the melic poet was from Teos; in whose time the Teians abandoned their city and migrated to, Abdera, a Thracian city, being unable to bear the insolence of the Persians; and hence the verse in reference to Abdera. (Strabo 14,1,30)
When Charisander was archon at Athens, the Romans elected four military tribunes with consular power, Servius Sulpicius, Lucius Papirius, Titus Quinctius; and the Eleians celebrated the one hundred first Olympiad, in which Damon of Thurii won the stadium race. During their term of office, in Thrace the Triballians, suffering from a famine, moved in full force into territory beyond their borders and obtained food from the land not their own. More than thirty thousand invaded the adjacent part of Thrace and ravaged with impunity the territory of Abdera; and after seizing a large quantity of booty they were making their way homeward in a contemptuous and disorderly fashion when the inhabitants of Abdera took the field in full force against them and slew more than two thousand of them as they straggled in disorder homewards.
This extract is from: Diodorus Siculus, Library (ed. C. H. Oldfather, 1989). Cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
After the battle of Philippi. They were under the leadeship of Hortensius, son of the homonyme orator. This event constituted the beginning of the Roman dominion.
Abdera was rescued by Athenian forces after the invasion of the Triballoi and subsequently became a member of the Second Athenian League.
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