Alexander Hellenization And Greek Culture

Hellenization means the historical development of bringing together and conforming the various cultures of the Mediterranean within Alexander’s empire to the fundamental mold of what is now called Greek culture. Alexander and his following leaders were very pompous of their culture. They wanted to send it abroad, and they wanted the world to conform to it.
The Jews had kept integral parts of their own culture while gradually accepting the Greek culture. Hellenized Jews started saying that sons of Abraham had been friends of Hercules, and children of Isaac had boarded ships with the Argonauts. Not long after they began to identify Moses with Musaeus, the son of Orpheus. There were educated and free-thinking Jews who saw that they had to throw