Thaïs of Athens

She is a splendid courtesan, whose name is famous far beyond Athens; at her feet there are crowds of admirers and heaps of silver. But what of it to her, if there is only one man she dreams of conquering! And that man dreams of conquering the whole world.

And both of them—Alexander the Great and the Athenian Thais—will leave their names to posterity. He—thanks to his conquests; she—thanks to her love, which to the very end will burn with the same fierce intensity as the palace of the Persian kings set on fire by the courtesan’s hand…