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Zoroaster was the subject of a 1749 opera by Jean-Phillippe Rameau. Why would an 18th-century Frenchman be aware of, let alone know anything about, an Iranian philosopher from the 2nd-millenium BC?
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Going by the synopsis, I must assume that *Zoroastre* has no historical content beyond the name of its lead. But the opera exists nonetheless. What would people in the 1700s know of Zoroaster? What would have been their sources on him or the Zoroastrian religion? Was he a commonly known figure?
Most importantly, when do we see actual scholarship on him and the historical religion rather than treating him as the leader of an army of good genies? What inspires this research?
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