The people of Abdera were notorious in Antiquity for their lack of political organization as well as for their ignorance and foolishness. In the epistolary novel transmitted within the Hippocratic Corpus (Epist. 10-17), this picture of the Abderites emerges from the role they played in the encounter between Hippocrates and Democritus, who represent respectively Science and Philosophy.
De historie van mejuffrouw Sara Burgerhart (1782) enjoyed an early editorial fortune in Europe in its times. The circulation of Wolff and Deken’s masterpiece is tightly connected to its educational aim. The first part of the article outlines the dissemination of this and some other Dutch novels in the context of the general circulation of ideas and works dealing with the education, especially of women and children. The mediators (translator and printers) are mentioned as well.
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