For four hundred years God was silent, from the time of Malachi to the appearance of John the Baptist, designated the last of the prophets. He came to prepare the way for the Messiah, a People ready for their Saviour.
In another part of the world God was speaking, making Himself known through men's thinking and living in the City of Athens. A time such as this had not been known before. The Gentile world was perhaps being prepared for the coming of the one true Man, made in God's likeness, the One who perfectly lived out the excellent virtues the philosophers spent so much time discussing.
As with John, it could be that this prepared the way for the revelation of the good news of Jesus Christ who had come for the 'sins of the world'. It was perhaps so that all men should recognise Him. His own people, the Jews, failed to do so and put Him to death. The Greeks, who now had a witness in their own hearts as to true goodness, saw God's news as foolish and were in turn condemned.
'For God has committed them all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on them all' Romans 11 vs 32
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