Talk:School of Abdera

Modern Greek name

An editor keeps inserting the Modern Greek translation of the Modern English term for this ancient Greek school of philosophy. This translation is irrelevant to the article as per WP:NOTDICT. Having the phrase in Modern Greek would only make sense if the term had originated in Greek writings. It did not. --Omnipaedista (talk) 14:26, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Scope of School of Abdera

@Teishin: - you reverted by redirect stating that the school of Abdera is more than just the atomists. However, in the Cambridge Dictionary of philosophy (2015) it states

Abderites: the Greek philosophers Leucippus and Democritus, the two earliest exponents of atomism. Even though Abdera, in Thrace (northern Greece), was home to three pre-Socratics – Leucippus, Democritus, and Protagoras – the term ‘Abderites’ and the phrase ‘School of Abdera' are applied only to Leucippus and Democritus. We can thus distinguish between early Greek atomism and Epicureanism, which is the later version of atomism developed by Epicurus of Athens. This modern usage is in one respect inapt: the corresponding Greek term, Abderite¯s,-ai, was used in antiquity as a synonym of ‘simpleton’ – not in disparagement of any of thethree philosophers of Abdera but as a regional slur.

Do you have another recent source that disputes this? If not, why did you revert my edits? - car chasm (talk) 01:21, 4 April 2022 (UTC)