The conquests of Alexander the Great were followed by a flood of
Greek migration into the lands previously ruled by Persia. In
Egypt, thanks to the survival of collections of related documents
written on papyrus, it is possible to study the fortunes of some of
these immigrants and their families, and of some of their Egyptian
neighbors, with an immediacy provided by no other ancient source.
Some Egyptians, such as Menkhes the village clerk and Panebkhounis
the soldier, gain through their services some of the privileges
enjoyed by the Greeks; the Greek cavalry officer Dryton, on the
other hand, marries an Egyptian, and in the next generation his
family begins to lose its Greek identity. These and other case
studies compose a vivid picture of life in a country in which the
native Egyptian population is dominated by a privileged and
exclusive Greek minority.
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