How Alexander Spread Hellenism (And Great Food) Across the World

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As Alexander’s successors, the Diadochi, fought for prominence, tens of thousands of mostly intelligent, highly-cultivated Greeks flooded the recently-founded Alexandrias across Africa and the Middle East¹.

This flood, which may have reached the low hundreds of thousands over a few decades, also ended in older cities ranging from Antioch-on-the-Orontes/Antiochia to Bactria. All those Greeks chased riches and the protection of Macedonian warlords who went on to becoming dynasty-founders like Ptolemy and Seleucus.