KhalaiMakhlooq
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About 3500 years ago.
Where are you going with his?
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As to the age in which Zoroaster flourished (not lived), there have been the greatest discrepancies among the ancient authorities.
Ctesias makes him a contemporary of Semiramis.
Hermippus of Smyrna places him 5000 years before the Trojan War
Xanthus of Lydia 6000 years before Xerxes. Aristotle assigned him a similar antiquity.
Aristotle and Eudoxus say that he lived 6000 years before Plato.
Berosus, the Babylonian historian, makes him a king of Babylon, and the founder of a dynasty which reigned over Babylon.
Agathias remarks with perfect truth that it is no longer possible to determine with any certainty when he lived and legislated.
"The Persians," he adds, "say that Zoroaster lived under Hystaspes, but do not make it clear whether by this name they mean the father of Darius or another Hystaspes.
Who are the Persians.... Who knows? Definitely not you.