Translations:Hellenization/4/en

From roughly the 4th - 1st centuries BC, Arab tribes from the southern Levant and northwestern Arabia migrated northward into Syria and Mesopotamia. Palmyra, Homs, Edessa, Bosra and Hatra all had significant Arab populations. At the same time as this migration was going on, Syria was Hellenizing. This simultaneous presence of three cultures, Arab, Aramean, and Greek, quickly blended into a new culture. This culture synchronized local deities with Greek ones. Allat with Athena, Al'uzza with Aphrodite, Dhushara with Dionysus, Atargatis with Hera, Baal Shamin with Zeus, Azizos with Ares, etc. These are of course not direct parallels and the attributes varied. For example, Allat was most commonly associated with Athena but Herodotus associates her with Aphrodite Urania and we even have an inscription associating her with Artemis.