The Book of DieselThe Light Before the Gospel“When political demands made his school impossible, he prepared to leave for the west. A young student asked whether wisdom came from Greece, Egypt, Babylon, or Persia. Pythagoras said, ‘Distrust the teacher who cannot remember learning from a stranger.’”
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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.