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''Thaïs of Athens'' (Russian: "Таис Афинская") is a HistoricalFiction novel written by the Soviet paleontologist and SF writer Creator/IvanYefremov and set around the time of UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat's conquests. The eponymous heroine Thaïs is a famous [[UsefulNotes/AncientGreece Athenian]] [[HighClassCallGirl hetaera]], whom history remembers for burning the Achaemenid Persia's capital to the ground and later reigning as queen of [[AncientEgypt Ptolemaic Egypt]]. The novel takes these facts and [[HistoricalInJoke fills in the gaps and gray areas between and around them]] with invented characters and events that Thais encounters in her journey across the Ecumene. The result is both a compelling story and an epic panorama of life in the Hellenistic world during the late fourth century BCE.
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''Thaïs of Athens'' (Russian: "Таис Афинская") is a HistoricalFiction novel written by the Soviet paleontologist and SF writer Creator/IvanYefremov and set around the time of UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat's conquests. The eponymous heroine Thaïs is a famous [[UsefulNotes/AncientGreece Athenian]] [[HighClassCallGirl hetaera]], whom history remembers for burning the [[AncientPersia Achaemenid Persia's Persia's]] capital to the ground and later reigning as queen of [[AncientEgypt Ptolemaic Egypt]]. The novel takes these facts and [[HistoricalInJoke fills in the gaps and gray areas between and around them]] with invented characters and events that Thais encounters in her journey across the Ecumene. The result is both a compelling story and an epic panorama of life in the Hellenistic world during the late fourth century BCE.
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* AncientPersia: Where she requests Persepolis be set on fire. The novel also treats the beginnings of Hellenisation of the region.
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* HistoricalFiction: While the novel is [[ShownTheirWork extremely faithful]] to history books (with one exception[[note]]The author himself acknowledges that he pushed the creation of Venus de Milo two centuries earlier to be used in a discussion of Greek sculpture.[[/note]]), it has a number of clearly fictional plot lines, such as Thais' initiation in various ancient mysteries and her rocky romance with Alexander.
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* HistoricalFiction: While the novel is [[ShownTheirWork extremely faithful]] to history books (with one exception[[note]]The author himself acknowledges that he pushed the creation of Venus de Milo Art/VenusDeMilo two centuries earlier to be used in a discussion of Greek sculpture.{{sculpture|s}}.[[/note]]), it has a number of clearly fictional plot lines, such as Thais' initiation in various ancient mysteries and her rocky romance with Alexander.
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''Thaïs of Athens'' (Russian: "Таис Афинская") is a HistoricalFiction novel written by the Soviet paleontologist and SF writer Creator/IvanYefremov and set around the time of UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat's conquests. The eponymous heroine Thaïs is a famous [[UsefulNotes/AncientGreece Athenian]] [[HighClassCallGirl hetaera]], whom history remembers for burning the Achaemenid Persia's capital to the ground and later reigning as queen of [[AncientEgypt Ptolemaic Egypt]]. The novel takes these facts and [[HistoricalInJoke fills in the gaps and gray areas between and around them]] with invented characters and events that Thais encounters in her journey across the Ecumene. The result is both a compelling story and an epic panorama of [[TheGreatestHistoryNeverTold life in the Hellenistic world]] during the late fourth century BCE.
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''Thaïs of Athens'' (Russian: "Таис Афинская") is a HistoricalFiction novel written by the Soviet paleontologist and SF writer Creator/IvanYefremov and set around the time of UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat's conquests. The eponymous heroine Thaïs is a famous [[UsefulNotes/AncientGreece Athenian]] [[HighClassCallGirl hetaera]], whom history remembers for burning the Achaemenid Persia's capital to the ground and later reigning as queen of [[AncientEgypt Ptolemaic Egypt]]. The novel takes these facts and [[HistoricalInJoke fills in the gaps and gray areas between and around them]] with invented characters and events that Thais encounters in her journey across the Ecumene. The result is both a compelling story and an epic panorama of [[TheGreatestHistoryNeverTold life in the Hellenistic world]] world during the late fourth century BCE.
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* BrainyBrunette: Thais.
* TheCasanova: Ptolemy.
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Thais is all over this trope.
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* SexGoddess: Thais, as a side effect of being a priestess of [[LoveGod Aphrodite]].
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* MarySuetopia: {{Invoked}} by Ouranpolis. Thais views Greece (particularly, Athens) as this but grows increasingly disillusioned with it throughout the book.
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* {{Utopia}}: Examined by Ouranpolis. Thais views Greece (particularly, Athens) as this but grows increasingly disillusioned with it throughout the book.
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* {{Asexual}}: Eris is this (except [[SingleTargetSexuality that one time]] with Aechephile).
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* ChoosingDeath: [[spoiler:Cleophrades drinks poison after completing his MagnumOpus, judging himself too old to create anything greater.]]
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** For Thais: Alexander, after Menedem (even though she ends up marrying [[DesignatedLoveInterest Ptolemy]]).
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* AncientEgyptAncientEgypt: Thais stays in Egypt twice in the course of the novel: once as an exile, and once, as its queen.
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* LightLiegeDarkDefender: The title heroine is a beautiful hetaira who relies on her social skills and insight to advance in life. Her slave Eris, meanwhile, is a DarkActionGirl -- a failed priestess who would have been executed for breaking her oaths, had Thais not successfully negotiated for her life. Eris then becomes fiercely devoted to Thais, saving her from assassins on several occasions.
