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Forwarded from Pagan Revivalism
The Persian Connection
In figuring out how Axiality got into Europe, one factor that is often overlooked are the wars between Axial Persia and Pre-Axial Greece and why Persia resorted to it's agents planted in society.
• Heraclitus: Spoke out against his countrymen trying to regain sovereignty from Persia during the Ionian Revolt.
• Pythagoras: A self-admitted Magi agent sent to Syracuse and who got into local politics on their behalf, he failed but retried by Plato a few decades later.
• Socrates: He did fight with Athens in the Peloponnesian war in his youth, he sided with Persian-allied Sparta in his later years, plato's family and his philosophical acolytes were some of the 30 tyrants of Athens (a persio-spartan puppet government).
• Plato: His family were leaders of the Persian puppet state the 30 tyrants & exiled in 399bc.
• Xenophon: Was a mercenary for the Persian Cyrus the younger, spent a lot of time inside Persia, who later came back to Athens & was exiled when socrates was executed in 399bc.
In figuring out how Axiality got into Europe, one factor that is often overlooked are the wars between Axial Persia and Pre-Axial Greece and why Persia resorted to it's agents planted in society.
• Heraclitus: Spoke out against his countrymen trying to regain sovereignty from Persia during the Ionian Revolt.
• Pythagoras: A self-admitted Magi agent sent to Syracuse and who got into local politics on their behalf, he failed but retried by Plato a few decades later.
• Socrates: He did fight with Athens in the Peloponnesian war in his youth, he sided with Persian-allied Sparta in his later years, plato's family and his philosophical acolytes were some of the 30 tyrants of Athens (a persio-spartan puppet government).
• Plato: His family were leaders of the Persian puppet state the 30 tyrants & exiled in 399bc.
• Xenophon: Was a mercenary for the Persian Cyrus the younger, spent a lot of time inside Persia, who later came back to Athens & was exiled when socrates was executed in 399bc.
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