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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 -Class Call Girl|hetaera]], whom history remembers for burning the Achaemenid Persia's capital to the ground and later reigning as queen of [[Ancient Egypt|Ptolemaic Egypt]]. The novel takes these facts and [[Historical In-Joke|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 [[The Greatest History Never Told|life in the Hellenistic world]] during the late fourth century BCE.

Although the novel was first published in Russian in 1972, it was only [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140107140014/http://thaisofathens.com/ recently translated] to English, almost forty years later.

* [[High -Class Call Girl]]: Thais and Aegesichore.