Quote:Remember the times, First Century Egypt.
Precisely. Alexandria was the intellectual center of the world not to mention a major port where ships from all over the known world arrived. Ideas follow the commercial lanes, too. Not just amphorae of wine. Further, Philo was the uncle of Tiberius Julius Alexander, procurator of Judaea and later on Prefect of Egypt. So what you have is a politically well-connected, wealthy, intellectual living at precisely the right place at precisely the right time.