Baskin, Judith R.; Seeskin, Kenneth (2010). The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion, and Culture. Cambridge University Press. էջ37. ISBN978-0-521-68974-8. «The wars between the two most prominent Greek dynasties, the Ptolemies of Egypt and the Seleucids of Syria, unalterably change the history of the land of Israel…As a result the land of Israel became part of the empire of the Syrian Greek Seleucids.»{{cite book}}: CS1 սպաս․ բազմաթիվ անուններ: authors list (link)
Steven C. Hause, William S. Maltby (2004). Western civilization: a history of European society. Thomson Wadsworth. էջ76. ISBN978-0-534-62164-3. «The Greco-Macedonian Elite. The Seleucids respected the cultural and religious sensibilities of their subjects but preferred to rely on Greek or Macedonian soldiers and administrators for the day-to-day business of governing. The Greek population of the cities, reinforced until the second century BCE by immigration from Greece, formed a dominant, although not especially cohesive, elite.»
Glubb, Sir John Bagot (1967). Syria, Lebanon, Jordan. Thames & Hudson. էջ34. OCLC585939. «In addition to the court and the army, Syrian cities were full of Greek businessmen, many of them pure Greeks from Greece. The senior posts in the civil service were also held by Greeks. Although the Ptolemies and the Seleucids were perpetual rivals, both dynasties were Greek and ruled by means of Greek officials and Greek soldiers. Both governments made great efforts to attract immigrants from Greece, thereby adding yet another racial element to the population.»
