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population, subsidize teachers and doctors, and construct public works. The Greek tradition that the wealthy elite of a city-state should make benefactions for the common good was therefore continued in a new way, through the social interaction of the kings and the urban upper classes. Well-to-do members ofthe indigenous populationsalso mattered to the kings. Since indigenous cities had long been powerful in Syria and Palestine, for example, the kings had to develop cordial relations with their leading members. Non-Greeks and non-Macedonians from eastern regions also moved westward to Hellenistic Greek cities in increasing numbers.Jews in particular moved away from Palestine into Anatolia, Greece, and Egypt. The Jewish community eventually became an influential minority in Alexandria, the most important Hellenistic city. In Egypt, the king also had to come to terms with the priests who controlled the temples of the traditional Egyptian gods because the temples owned large tracts of productive agricultural land worked by tenant farmers.The linchpin in the organization of the Hellenistic kingdoms was the system of mutual rewards by which the kings and their leading subjects-Greeks, Macedonians, and indigenous elitesbecame, as it were, partners in government and public finance.The successor kingdoms nevertheless amounted to foreign rule over indigenous populations by kings and queens of Macedonian descent. Monarchs had to accommodate the urban elites and the favored immigrants in their kingdoms, but royal power pervaded the lives of the kingdoms' subjects, above all in the meting out of justice. Seleucus, for one, claimed this right as a universal truth: "It is not the customs of the Persians and other peoples that I impose upon you, but the law which is common to everyone, that what is decreed by the king is always just" (Appian, Syriake 61).Even Antigonus's successors,who claimed to lead the Greeks in a voluntary alliance that allegedly reestablished Philip's League of Corinth, frequently interferedin the internal affairs ofthe Greek city-states. Like the other kings,they regularly installed their own governors and garrisons in cities where loyalty was suspect. Never again would ancient Greeks live their lives free of the shadow of monarchy, sometimes faint in the distance, sometimes looming near.
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