The Book of DieselThe Light Before the Gospel“Pythagoras arrived in Babylon under guard, furious that history had reduced him from seeker to cargo. He had studied in Egypt and expected his captors to possess weapons, horses, and little else. Then he saw a tablet recording the movement of planets across generations longer than any Greek city had preserved its laws.”
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Later biographical traditionAncient or late-antique tradition supplies the premise; the private scenes are reconstructed.
Later biographies say Pythagoras was taken from Egypt to Babylon after Cambyses’s conquest and studied with Magi and Babylonian scholars. These detailed traditions were written centuries later and cannot be treated as secure biography.
The captivity, teacher Mehrasp, and all private scenes are historical fiction built from later traditions.