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Encyclopedia Britannica



THAIS

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 719 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TAV-THE
THAIS , a Greek courtesan, who lived during the time of Alexander the
Great
 . She accompanied him on his Asiatic campaign, and is chiefly known from the story which represents her as having persuaded the conqueror to set fire to the city of
Persepolis
 . This anecdote forms the subject of
Dryden
 's Ode to Saint
Cecilia
 's Day. But its authenticity is doubtful, since it is based upon the authority of
Cleitarchus
 , one of the least trustworthy of the historians of Alexander. Thais subsequently became the wife of
Ptolemy
  Lagus, king of
Egypt
 . Numerous anecdotes and witticisms attributed to her will be found in Athenaeus.
See Diod. Sic. xvii. 72; Plutarch, Alexander, 38; Athenaeus xiii. 576, 585; Quintus Curtiusv. 7.


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