# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thais
# Generated: 2026-08-31T23:40:58.151Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thais"
name: "Thaïs"
slug: "thais"
description: "Thaïs was a Greek hetaira who accompanied Alexander the Great on his military campaigns. Likely from Athens, she is most famous for having instigated the burning of Persepolis, the capital city of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, after it was conquered by Alexander's army in 330 BCE. At the time, Thaïs was the lover of Ptolemy I Soter, who was one of Alexander's close companions and generals. It has been suggested that she may also have been Alexander's lover on the basis of a statement by the Greek rhetorician Athenaeus, who writes that Alexander liked to \"keep Thaïs about him\" without directly classifying the nature of their relationship as intimate; this may simply have meant that he enjoyed her company, as she is said to have been very witty and entertaining. Athenaeus also states that after Alexander's death in 323 BCE, Thaïs married Ptolemy and bore three of his children."
tagline: "Greek hetaera involved with Alexander the Great"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joshua_Reynoldsre_thais.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "-400"
deathDate: "-400"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57.18
  momentum:             11.63704488283435
  historical:           22.19653466666667
  currentAttention:     2.961500493583415
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thais"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "تائیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Таис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thais_(hetaira)"
    title: "Thais (hetaira)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tais_(hetera)"
    title: "Tais (hetera)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tha%C3%AFs"
    title: "Thaïs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%98%CE%B1%CE%90%CF%82"
    title: "Θαΐς"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tha%C3%AFs"
    title: "Thaïs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tais"
    title: "Tais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tais_(cortesana)"
    title: "Tais (cortesana)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tais_(hetera)"
    title: "Tais (hetera)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "تائیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thais"
    title: "Thais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tha%C3%AFs_(h%C3%A9ta%C3%AFre)"
    title: "Thaïs (hétaïre)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%AA%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A1"
    title: "תאיס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B9%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%AB%D5%BD"
    title: "Թայիս"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thais"
    title: "Thais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taide_(etera)"
    title: "Taide (etera)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9_(%E5%8F%A4%E4%BB%A3%E3%82%AE%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A2%E3%81%AE%E9%81%8A%E5%A5%B3)"
    title: "タイス (古代ギリシアの遊女)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%97%E1%83%90%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98"
    title: "თაისი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tha%C3%AFs_(meretrix_Atheniensis)"
    title: "Thaïs (meretrix Atheniensis)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tha%C3%AFs_(hetaere)"
    title: "Thaïs (hetaere)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tha%C3%AFs"
    title: "Thaïs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta%C3%ADs_de_Atenas"
    title: "Taís de Atenas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Таис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tais"
    title: "Tais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thais"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q267733"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump