Thais

, a famous courtesan of Athens, who accompanied Alexander in his Asiatic conquests, and gained such an ascendancy over him, that she made him burn the royal palace of Perse polis. After Alexander’s death, she married Ptolemy king of Egypt. Menander celebrated her charms both mental and personal, which were of a superior nature, and on this account she is called Men andrea by Pro pert i us , bk. 2 , poem 6.— Ovid , Ars Am at or i a , bk. 3 , li. 604 ; Remedia Amoris , li. 384 .— Plutarch , Alexander .— Juvenal , satire 3, li. 93 .— Athenæus , bk. 13 , ch. 13 .