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• Alexander’s victories, and the speed with which he had accomplished them, were so impressive that people wanted to know more about the Greek and Macedonian cultures and beliefs. Greek philosophy, and beliefs, and customs, certainly spread far and wide. That was the Hellenisation process. People adopted Greek names, including many people and cities which adopted or adapted the name of Alexander himself, such as the city of Alexandria in Egypt.
• But adopting the Greek language was a different matter. In just over a dozen years, Alexander and his small army had ridden on horseback over tens of thousands of square miles, defeating armies many times their size and with greater military experience. But Alexander was a military strategist, a soldier, an army general, a leader, but not a teacher of the Greek language.