TY  - BOOK
AU  - Estakhr,Mehdi
TI  - The Place of Zoroaster in History: Using the Cult of Personality as a Literary Source of Authority in the Western Tradition
SN  - 9780773418622 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BL1571 
U1  - 295.63 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Lewiston
PB  - Edwin Mellen Press
KW  - Zoroaster.
KW  - Zoroastrian symbolism -- Catalogs
KW  - Zoroastrianism -- History -- Catalogs
KW  - Zoroastrianism in literature -- Catalogs
KW  - Zoroastrianism
KW  - Relations
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Christianity and other religions
KW  - RELIGION / Zoroastrianism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record
N2  - Europe's fascination with Zoroaster began in the classical period. Celebrated as the embodiment of wisdom and morality, and enjoying the prestige of an unfathomable antiquity, a personality cult, with validating authority, was created around him. This led several western schools of thought to claim him as their precursor and first master; foisting their own ideas under him to give them validity. When Zoroaster was metamorphed into an astrologer, his authority was also sought by those circles for which astrological occurences provided proof for claims they made, such as certain Neo-Platonists a
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