Zoroaster
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Er, son of Armenius · Zoroaster the Mede · the man
spoken of as
1 expressionZoroaster the Mede1 mention
Stromata (Greek)
And Pythagoras the great too always attended to foreknowledge, and Abaris the Hyperborean and Aristeas of Proconnesus and Epimenides the Cretan, who came to Sparta, and Zoroaster the Mede and Empedocles of Acragas and Phormion the Laconian, indeed Polyaratus the Thasian and Empedotimus the Syracusan, and besides these, especially, Socrates the Athenian.
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Stromata
Persian Magus whom Pythagoras is said to have zealously followed.
And Pythagoras zealously followed Zoroaster the Persian Magus;
" This Zoroaster Plato says came to life again, lying twelve days upon the pyre.
And Pythagoras the great too always attended to foreknowledge, and Abaris the Hyperborean and Aristeas of Proconnesus and Epimenides the Cretan, who came to Sparta, and Zoroaster the Mede and Empedocles of Acragas and Phormion the Laconian, indeed Polyaratus the Thasian and Empedotimus the Syracusan, and besides these, especially, Socrates the Athenian.
Orations
Persian sage from whom the Magi learned the cosmic myth of Zeus's chariot, said to have survived a mountain fire unharmed.
But the strong and perfect chariot of Zeus no one of those here ever hymned worthily, neither Homer nor Hesiod, but Zoroaster and the children of the Magi sing it, having learned from him;
And they do the rest according to sacred rules, and indeed rear for Zeus a chariot of Nisaean horses;