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Good.
1 posted on 12/16/2012 3:34:34 PM PST by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Of course the Seleucids weren't really Greek, they were Macedonian...but they were trying to force the cult of the Greek god Zeus in the temple in Jerusalem. The modern Greeks aren't descended from people speaking Greek in Syria in the second century before our era.

2 posted on 12/16/2012 4:42:44 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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