from two of the Greek poets, Aratus and Cleanthes, both of whom seem to have said, “We are his offspring” (17:28). Paul seemed at home in the intellectual setting of Athens. It was as if a graduate of Harvard or Yale were to visit Cambridge or Oxford. There would be respect for a university that was older and yet was much the same. Paul was also disturbed as he began to talk with the prominent Athenian philosophers. Luke tells us that they were Epicureans and Stoics. The Epicureans and Stoics were