As noted in my recent study, according to P. Vasunia in “Persian Responses: Political And Cultural Interaction with(in) the Achaemenid Empire” (2007), disciples of Pythagoras and Plato invoked Zoroaster in their works. There was strong receptivity to Iranian influences in Greece, the Aegean, and Anatolia…“Iranian influence on classical Greek and Roman culture is not just plausible but likely”…

[pic Highline College:  In 1976, an American anthropologist Edward T. Hall proposed the Iceberg Theory Model to understand culture…that is, the visible aspects of culture are “the tip of the iceberg”… it’s the lower hidden part that contain the most powerful forces… for educational purposes only]