There were actually strong political reasoning behind that, it is just nobles marrying into an already existing political elite so they have legitimacy of government. The commoners will accept the new Greek overlords because they're married to the old overlords.
Plus political elites from one group have more in common than political elites from another group than either group have in common with their peasants.
There were actually strong political reasoning behind that, it is just nobles marrying into an already existing political elite so they have legitimacy of government. The commoners will accept the new Greek overlords because they're married to the old overlords.
Plus political elites from one group have more in common than political elites from another group than either group have in common with their peasants.