In this episode, Brendon and Skyler continue setting up the context for the coming series on the Nicene Creed. Today, we take a brief and broad tour of Alexander the Great and the Harvest of Hellenism. What is Hellenization? We take a look at some of its political and cultural context – and then focus on the philosophical schools of Stoicism and Epicureanism. This will be key to accurately understanding the world of the New Testament, the early church - as well as contemporary debates over Christian theology and apologetics.Correction: The Battle of Tyre occurred in present-day Lebanon, not Syria. Also, though the Battle of Gaugamela occurred in modern-day northern Iraq (Iraqi Kurdistan), Alexander didn’t arrive at the body of Darius III until he was in modern-day northeastern Iran.Clarification (in case there was confusion): The Cleopatra mentioned as the wife of Philip II of Macedon is not the famous Cleopatra. The seventh and final wife of Philip of Macedon was Cleopatra (sometimes, "Eurydice"). She (and her children) was seen as a threat by another wife of Philip - the mother of Alexander, Olympias. The famous Cleopatra, Queen Cleopatra VII (of Caesar and Mark Antony fame) was actually the last ruler of the Ptolemies (of the Ptolemaic Kingdom, spoken of in this episode) and ruled from 51-30 BC.Twelve Greeks and Romans Who Changed the World by Carl Richard Alexander the Great: Journey to the End of the Earth by Norman Cantor Alexander At the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great by Rachel Kousser The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander, edited by James Romm  Alexander to Actium by Peter Green The Harvest of Hellenism by F.E. Peters Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World by Louis Feldman The Jews in the Greek Age by Elias Bickerman The Land of the Elephant Kings; Time and its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire by Paul Kosmin Circumference by Nicholas Nicastro  The Epicurus Reader, translated and edited by Brad Inwood and L.P. Gerson The Stoics Reader, translated, with introduction, by Brad Inwood and L.P. Gerson Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics by A.A. Long Epicurus and His Gods by Andre-Jean Festugiere Stoic Philosophy by J.M. Rist The Stoics by F.H. Sandbach Ancient Mystery Cults by Walter Burkert Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds by Peter Adamson  Destroyer of the God by Larry Hurtado Dominion by Tom Holland Christian Charity in the Ancient Church by Gerhard Uhlhorn Unnatural Death by Richard Weikart Abortion and the Early Church by Michael Gorman Infinitesimal by Amir Alexander The Virgin Birth of Christ; Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham MachenChristless Christianity; Core Christianity by Michael Horton"Resurrection, Proof, and Presuppositionalism: Acts 17.30-31" by Lane Tipton; found in Revelation and Reason, edited by K. Scott Oliphant and Lane TiptonThe Gospel and the Greeks by Ronald Nash

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