Contacts between Egypt and Greece go back much longer than the Ptolemies, of course, as does Greek fascination with a land that “has the most wonders, and everywhere presents works beyond description”. But after Alexander's conquest those contacts hugely increased, and soon the Romans came on the scene too. One may thus speak of globalization or a globalizing world in a broad sense, and in that sense only. The first Ptolemy arrived as an immigrant himself, at a time when the land probably showed very little sign of the new Greco‐Macedonian presence. When Ptolemy made peace with Demetrius and married off his daughter Ptolemais to him, he still required hostages from Demetrius, and Pyrrhus was among those selected. For all the freedom and privileges a royal hostage like Pyrrhus enjoyed at the Ptolemaic court, the situation of the many prisoners of war who were brought to Egypt would have been very different.
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