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The full extent of the influence of Zarathustra is beyond the scope of a blog post. However, a look at his influence, directly and indirectly, upon Western thought will prove to illuminate.  According to Porphyry’s Life of Pythagoras, the Pythagorean tradition held that their founder, Pythagoras, had studied with Zoroaster, the Greek name for Zarathustra, inContinue reading “Zarathustra’s Influence”