These worlds are incompatible because Greeks dealt a lot with the universe. They were open to new ways of thinking no matter where they came from. Greeks could not understand the philosophy of one God, they have so many. They couldn’t understand that why we worship a God that has no looks and you have never seen him before. The Greeks had many gods. Everybody that dealt with another religion, besides being a Jew, could worship the Greek gods also. Jews didn't make even token efforts at compromise. Suggesting a little idolatry in return for peace sounds absurd, until you realize that's essentially what every other religion does, even today. The Bible was lived and written during the times of the ancient civilizations in the Middle East. For