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''[[Thais of Athens]]'' (Russian: "Таис Афинская") is a [[Historical Fiction]] novel written by the Soviet paleontologist and SF writer [[Ivan Yefremov]] and set around the time of [[Alexander the Great]]'s conquests. The eponymous heroine Thaïs is a famous [[Ancient Greece|Athenian]] [[High
Although the novel was first published in Russian in 1972, it was only [
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* [[Ancient Greece]]: The early chapters.
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* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Thais suffers this after the deaths of {{spoiler|Aegesichore and Menedem, Alexander, and Roxanne and Alexander's son}}.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Thais and Eris. Men come and go but those two stick together.
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* [[Historical Domain Character]]: Thais, Alexander, Ptolemy, Hephaestion, Nearchus, Cleitus, [[Aristotle]], and Lysippos. Also, Thalestris... kinda.
* [[Historical Fiction]]: While the novel is [[Shown Their Work|extremely faithful]] to history books (with one exception<ref>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.</ref>), 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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[[Category:Russian Literature]]
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