The Daēvi of Zoroastrianism are not in origin other than the Devis of the correspondent, indeed related Indian mythology and theology. Other than the… - Italo Pizzi

We, long bred in the ideas of classical culture, because we know that the Greeks defeated the Persians at Marathon, at Thermopylae, at Salamis, we also aged ourselves to consider these people as a bunch of cowards taken to the slaughter by the ambition of a tyrant, while it is also known that they, in those battles, fought as va Herodotus himself makes it, with praise, beautiful and open testimony, nor, bear in mind that, they were all Persians or Iranians the soldiers that Darius and Xerxes were then with them; he was, on the other hand, an infinite bevy, ill-ordered, of distant and very different people. Alexander, it is true, took the kingdom from Dario Codomanno, but and Darius and his people, while yielding, yielded as valiant; and the Arabs who in the seventh century of our Era invaded Iran and destroyed the ancient empire in 650, certainly did not enter without a blow injuring the rich and glorious country, even if the kingdom was torn.

Whatever it may, it is a well-ordered and engineered system of religion that, like Mosaism, Christianity and Islamism, proceeds from the preaching and fruitful work of one person.

There is no well-founded reason to accuse Alessandro of the dispersion of the 'Avesta' and the consequent loss of many among the books of it, even if the Parsi accuse him of this, they who usually call him, for the hatred they have, the cursed. Coming from hatred, the accusation cannot be entirely right, and on the other hand it is known that Alexander was not intolerant of the religions of the peoples he visited and defeated, he did not deal with either their rites or their beliefs, which, while he had many other things to expect, he cared little or nothing. Indeed, if they cared, they cared in a favorable sense, because it is also known that the Macedonian soldiers who had followed him in the East, accused him, as crude as they were and uncultured, of assuming Asian customs and rites, the Persians in particular.