Panhellenism

[Ghostmojo]

I think it may be more accurate to say the plan could have worked if Antiochus was less aggressive or more tactful in executing it. Clearly it did work to some degree since many Jews were being hellenized - adopting Greek names, customs, and even deities. Otherwise there would have been no civil war....

I wonder where the nature of the following curio falls? In the 3rdC BC (Areos I's reign) there was the suggestion of a racial/cultural/historic link between the Ptolemaic Jews and the Spartans in First Maccabees. Later on this had become an accepted (probable) fiction as allies sought out potential allies and new kinships forged.

Is this is both a form of panhellenism and also hellenisation in the Hellenistic age?