Persians and Greeks built the two civilizations of their geographies. Since early times, there has been a rivalry and interaction between the two civilizations. Anecdotes about the Persians in the ancient Greek classics give an idea about how they handled Iranian culture. In these texts, Zoroastrianism, which is one of the most influential religions of the Persians, is mentioned as “sorcery” and the beliefs of the Persians are questioned in terms of originality. Herodotus, who narrates the Persian-Greek wars, clearly stated in his historical work. On the other hand, Greek culture was questioned in terms of originality in ancient Iranian sources, most of which inherited from us as Pahlavi-Pazand texts. Unlike the Greeks, the Persians saw their culture as their own, not other societies. After Alexander the Great invaded Iran, Greeks captured the works in there and according to Pahlavi texts, Greeks established a civilization through this works. In these texts the most notable one is that while Greeks took these works from Iran, they also destroyed the rest of the copies of these works. Persians also made an effort to take back the wisdom stolen from them. So the activities of the Sassanids to translate Greek philosophy were actually an effort to create a Persian corpus. And it is not a coincidence that there are some parallels between the works of Greek philosophers and Pahlavi texts. As a reflection of this point of view, Dinkard almost identifies philosophy with religion. In the Islamization process of Iran, it is seen that Persian works began to disappear. One of the reasons for this situation is the great migrations from Iran to the Indian geography, and the other is the destruction of Persian artifacts by the Muslims, according to Ibn Khaldun. Since Persians were partners in power during the Abbasid period, they wanted to create a Persian collection again and they probably undertook the translation activities of Greek works to achieve these goals. We can see this purpose in the re-compilation of Dinkard with the same periods of establishing Bayt al-Hikma. With the Persians re-examining Greek culture, Muslim Arabs met Greek philosophy. Even if this makes it difficult for us to get to the roots of the originality debate, it makes it easier for us to read the Persian views on the Greeks. Our research aims to understand the Persian culture and religion, taking into account the historical conditions, through the information about the Greeks in ancient Iranian sources. In this context, the conditions for the spread of Zoroastrianism in Iran and the reasons why Zoroastrian believers disagreed on certain issues can be explained.
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