title: Abderites
text: # Abderites
  
  Abderites or Abderite may refer to:
  
  * People associated with the ancient city of Abdera, Thrace
  * Adherents of the philosophical school of Abdera
  * Abderite, a reference to Democritus, native of Abdera; later acquired the generic meaning of "scoffer"
  * Abderites, archetypical fools in classical Greece, akin of the Wise Men of Gotham
  * The satirical book Die Abderiten, eine sehr wahrscheinliche Geschichte by Christoph Martin Wieland
  * Abderites (mammal), a genus of Paucituberculata from South America
  