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Jews remember Alexander as a good ruler. A story goes that Alexander asked us to build him a statue. As Jews did not create statues of men for fear they would be idolised, they instead offered to name children after him. Accordingly, Alexander is still a popular Jewish name, one of the few European names popular amongst non-Europeans.
However Greeks only ruled Judaea from Alexander's conquest in 332 BC to the Hasmonean victory in 164 BC, which is 168 years, nowhere near 450.
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95% of Hellenic Kings were good rulers especially the Ptolemy's with the rare odd exception - pity the expansion into the godless Western Europe did not occur . Maccabean revolt did not mean shit; Judea was still a subject of Hellenic Kings until it was annexed by Rome which was in fact Greco-Roman and the offical name of the province was Συριακη Επαρχια so the time line was actually 305 BC to 135 AD and shortly after a Byzantine province. (so the greco-roman domains died then)
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The Byzantine rule was obviously separate. Judaea paid tribute to Hellenes at times, that doesn't make it a subject thereof. Besides, tribute stopped in 142 BC and the Maccabees continued to attack and conquer more Hellene-occupied land. I don't think many people would consider Hasmonean Judaea to be Hellenic, but even if it was, it was completely and nominally free from 129BC, after which the Hasmoneans were totally independent and even came to call themselves Kings, until Roman rule beginning 63 BC. Even then they retained a degree of independence for even generations (see also: Heord). 135 AD is a date you made up. By that point Judaea had been Roman (not Greek) for, by any measure, decades, and by most measures, two centuries, and free of Seleucid rule for almost 300 years.
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True, also I want to add about that "Greco-Roman" term which catgeorge used, if catgeorge ment by "Greco-Roman" for Roman empire before emperor Theodosius divided it 395, that was not "Greco-Roman" but only Roman Empire. Even what is known as "Byzantine Empire" (either from 395 or 476, nevermind from which date someone will say it was start of "Byzantine Empire") was in fact Roman Empire all the way until Emperor Justinian, means Latin was official language of Byzantine Empire, ok, after Byzantines adopted Greek as main language we can say it was more Greek than Roman, but never the less Byzantines actually call themselves as Romans, except Pope who called them "Greek Empire" only because of his agenda and rivalry between Rome and Constantinople .
I mean it doesn't matter to me will someone call "Byzantine" Empire as Greco-Roman or Roman or Greek alone, I just wanted to clear this about TRUE Roman Empire , means before 476, it was ROMAN only, not Greco-Roman .
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