The Book of DieselThe Light Before the Gospel“He visited the governor and found neither monster nor sage, only an administrator who loved gardens and signed punishments before lunch. The discovery disappointed everyone who required history to have simpler faces.”
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Historically anchoredThe setting or public event is documented; dialogue, motives, and recurring characters are invented.
Traditional chronologies place Pythagoras back on Samos after the island had entered the Persian imperial sphere, before his later move to Croton. Details of his movements remain uncertain.
The Persian official, the letter, and the final conversation are fictional.