The Book of DieselThe Light Before the Gospel“Leontes deserted before Alexander's army moved east. He had watched officers divide Persian households as rewards and heard philosophers explain conquest as civilization. The explanation sounded cleaner than the camp.”
The Book of Diesel · Gospel Threshold Edition v4.5
Interpretive reconstructionA documented text or tradition is interpreted through openly fictional scenes.
Greek and Iranian populations interacted, intermarried, resisted, and adapted after Alexander; moral choices did not follow ethnic lines.
Leontes's later life and the refugee settlement are fictional.