Because we tend to think it all sorts with the gr curiously,

most of these people were the big names, anyway, in greek philosophy and sur they all began with a p for some reason. Start off with pythagoras. He's supposed to have visited, or wanted to visit, iron. Then we continue. Plato did not go beyond the limits. I think he might have been to syria, where he met some of the magi. But he was coming back to this. He was the honorary consul the proxenus. And of course, as e kind of a vice honorary consul, he did meet the major in athens. They visited him. And there is a story i can't quite place, perhaps ellen knows at he was supposed to have visitedamegus is supposed to have visited plato in the last evening of his life. And of course, before then, there were interchanges with them. Now, the curious thing is, why did they all wish to go to iran? Right up to the times of plotonus, wethe, the ne platonist, o, the founder of new platons, porphyry, all these people. Why iran? Again, they tell you it was to meet either the successors of zarathustra, or, in the earliest cases, pap tomeet with zarathustra himself? Can i just actually just read a couple of lines from a very fine quotation

by a classicist? May i do that? A lon is? I dont be rude. But as long as it is just a couple, we're not therothers us. Anyway,

they noono. This is the sugesture a. This has to do with the visits of the greeks. And it says, we cannot afford to minimize the significance of the continual exodus of highly intelligent and talented greeks to iran. They were there in search not just of coreer opportunities or political asylum, but also of a wiser civilization. So

we have that.