We introduce the podcast and then explain why the Bishop of Alexandra, an Egyptian, would speak Greek. The required a brief overview of the Achaemenid, Macedonian, and Seleucid Empires, and the Ptolemaic Kingdom, as well as what Hellenism is and how the Hellenization process worked.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_(ancient_kingdom)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioch
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seleucid_Empire
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemaic_Kingdom

Music from https://filmmusic.io "Tabuk" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)