The Hellenistic Age saw Greeks settling in large numbers over a huge swath of territory sometimes thousands of miles from home, how did the Macedonian Kings convince people to move so far from home?

by ProudScroll

Was it really as simple as sending a guy to Athens or Thessaloniki and shout out in the agora “his majesty King Antiochus offers land and wealth to any that agree to settle in his realm” and people would agree to come despite not knowing where they might end up?

76vibrochamp

Greeks had been moving away from home since before the reestablishment of literacy, for a wide variety of reasons. /u/Iphikrates discusses the nature of Greek colonization in further detail here.

/u/EnclavedMicrostate discusses the specific context of Alexander's settlements here.