Zoroaster

Zarathushtra (Zara?u?tra), usually known in English as Zoroaster after the Greek version of the name, ??????????, was a Persian (Iranian) prophet and the founder of Zoroastrianism, which was the national religion of Persia from the time of the Achaemenidae to the close of the Sassanid period. Zoroaster was probably born in the northeastern part of Persia (Iran), though there is also a tradition that he came from Balkh in modern day Afghanistan. In Modern Persian the name takes the form of Zarto?t or Zardo?t (?????).

External links

• Zarathushtra's Name(CAIS at SOAS)
• Influence of Zoroastrianism on Judaism and Christianity
• Zarathushtra and His Religion (iranologie.com)
• Harry Thurston Peck's entry on Zoroaster, in the Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)
• Zoroaster--Zarathustra, The Persian Prophet
• Zarathushtra's Gathas (avesta.org)