syrian-greek

Updated: May 14, 2025

The Syrian-Greek yoke was thrown off, and, after groaning under alien rule, the Persian, the Egyptian, and the Syro-Macedonian, for four hundred years, Judea became an independent state. In its foreign relations, the new state was secured by the self-sacrificing courage of the first Maccabean brothers, and from within it was supported by the deep-sunk pillars of the spiritual life.

Simon Dubnow - Jewish History : an essay in the philosophy of history

It was little more than a farce when the Syrian-Greek Antiochus II, for services rendered to a city, was called "Theos" by the grateful citizens; it was the baldest flattery when Herod's oration was greeted by a tumultuous assembly as the "voice of a god."

Crawford Howell Toy - Introduction to the History of Religions: Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV