Alexander had planned to settle the eastern shores of the Persian Gulf with Greek colonists , and although it is not clear that this happened on the scale he envisaged , Tylos was very much part of the Hellenised world : the language of the upper classes was Greek ( although Aramaic was in everyday use ) , while Zeus was worshipped in the form of the Arabian sun-god Shams .
Alexander planned to settle the eastern shores of the Persian Gulf with Greek colonists .