One historian writes: “Since Jews could not avoid contact with their Hellenized neighbors, still less with their own brethren abroad, absorption of Greek culture and Greek ways of thinking was unavoidable.... Merely to breathe in the Hellenistic period involved absorption of Greek culture! ”
इन सेनापतियों में से एक का नाम था सैल्यूकस जो सीरिया पर राज्य करता था और दूसरा था टॉलमी जिसका मिस्र पर अधिकार था ।