Greek culture had been the product of the city-state, and Hellenism could not be dissevered from the city.
Soter tried to introduce Hellenism into Persis.
In the country-side of Judaea, Judaism - and no longer Hellenism - was propagated by force.
But that ability was largely due to his whole-hearted Hellenism, which was shown by the Greek cities which he founded in Palestine and the buildings he erected in Jerusalem.
It was not till the great colonizing epoch of the 8th and 7th centuries B.C., when the name " Hellene " came into use as the antithesis of " barbarian," that the Greek race came to be conscious of itself as a peculiar people; it was yet some three centuries more before Hellenism stood fully declared in art and literature, in politics and in thought.
