Think of the ancient world as Classical music.
Think of Greek Philosophy as Rock n' Roll.
There is still Classical music, but, Rock and Roll overtook and dominanted popular tastes and changed the marketplace.
Now, think of Hip Hop in relation to Rock and Roll.
Rock and Roll begins to fade and a whole new cultural ethos begins to dominate popular tastes. Fashions change, speech changes, attitudes change.
Plato is Hip Hop and Aristotle is Rock and Roll. Both co-exist. But, those who prefer one to the other break down into definite groups of a certain age, ethnicity and cultural bias.
So too with Philosophy and Religion as Alexander the Great's conquest introduced a new beat to an old generation and an exciting way of thinking to younger people among them. (Mysticism yielded to Rationalism).
Alexander the Great conquered nations, tribes and peoples leaving a backwash of Greek Philosophy in his wake.
Step One
Realize the ancient Greeks believed that there was always something instead of nothing.
The idea of nothing or zero is a fairly modern idea!
[A latter-day philosopher in the Catholic Church first introduced the idea that God created out of nothing (EX NIHILO)]
What was this something out of which everything is made and how did it get to be something?
Plato and other Greeks separated the something (called LOGOS) into two categories: Form and Matter.
Science today likes to use the terms: GENUS and DIFFERENTIA. (example:BIRDS: ROBIN)
Whatever organized the something was Plato's LOGOS or personified intelligence
HOW DO WE UNDERSTAND PLATO'S IDEA?
A carpenter holds in his mind the idea of a chair he wants to make. The carpenter uses materials which already exist to build that idea into an actual chair. The idea is a potential chair and what the carpenter builds is the actual chair.
Like a dream catcher catches your dream. 
This was a HUGE idea. It rocked the world. It laid down a new beat and had people's minds dancing to a new way of thinking.
You could dance to this new beat and be a really cool dude!
But, what were the call letters of this station?
How did you tune in?
A set of secret society's and Mystery cults with secret initiation ceremonies were very popular!
These were a kind of nightclub where only the cool people were allowed in to participate in the greatest entertainment in the universe.
You had to walk the walk and talk the talk and be totally cool with the rituals. Just like today, you have to wear the chains and the baggy clothes and the bling bling or you aren't hip to the hop.
THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS community was one of these groups who kept to themselves.
In the time of JESUS, most Jews had changed.
The ancient old-fashioned "Moses-style" Jew was out of fashion! It was the newer cool-dude Greek-thinking Jew that was hip to the newest trends.
In the New Testament, did John simply meant a literal: "Word" or did he mean the Greek metaphor of Logos: personified intelligence in perfect Form?
Some scholars of the Bible have suggested that John made creative use of double meaning in the word "Logos" to communicate to both Jews, who were familiar with the Wisdom tradition in Judaism, and Hellenic polytheism, especially followers of Philo. Each of these two groups had its own history associated with the concept of the Logos, and each could understand John's use of the term from one or both of those contexts.
Was John representing Greek thinking?
Especially for the Hellenists, [Greek-influened people) however, John turns the concept of the Logos on its head when he claimed "the Logos became flesh and dwelt among us"
Is John toying with the metaphor or changing it from personification into actual Person?
-not just a Rabbi, not just a Messiah, not just a son of a god, not just a demi-god, but, THE ORIGINAL SOMETHING that Plato and Heraclitus and Aristotle spoke of in ancient times.
Deep shit. . .but interesting.