Persian Cosmos and Greek Philosophy: Plato’s Associates and the Zoroastrian Magoi

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Abstract According to ancient biographical accounts, when Plato was a very old man and ill with fever, he received Persian magoi who had travelled to Athens to meet the eminent sage; apparently, one of these men entertained Plato and delighted him as he was nearing death. In one version of the story, preserved by the Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger (first centuryce), upon his death (on his birthday at the age of 81) the magoi sacrificed to Plato because he had completed the perfect number of nine times nine.

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