https://youtu.be/M-CvrAueg0wIvan Efremov and the channel Audiobooks offers you to listen to the fantasy novel – "Thais."Work based on real events historical event, namely the burning in 330 BC, Persepolis, one of the capitals of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, according to some historians, provoked by Thais. Some time after this tragedy, Thais was married to Ptolemy, after Alexander's death he returned to Egypt and became the Queen in Memphis.All is good, and the result would be an ordinary historical novel, if not one "but" – the period of limitation in the event, and therefore a critical shortage of details for a simple story, so Ivan Efremov had to Supplement and dilute it, quite an ordinary story, with fictitious events and characters. This allowed not only to diversify the plot, but to make it a fabulous and very interesting.The novel is long and firmly holds a solid position among the jewels of Soviet science fiction, with the best works which you can read and listen to them online in this section of our channel https://www.youtube.com/wat...But "Thais" is interesting not only the plot, but also a very rich description of the world of Ancient Greece, about which you will learn a lot (which is only the mention of a very rare drink called "black wine", which is only served hot).The novel begins in 337 BC, shortly after the battle of Chaeronea where the Macedonian king and father of the famous Alexander Philip II, before the conquest and bribery joined to his Empire a number of neighboring States, defeated the Greek army of Athens and Thebes.From the annotation to the audio book "Thais of Athens"The main character of the novel, hetaera Thais, the real historic character. Despite her seventeen years, she was considered a celebrity in Athens. For a brilliant appearance, education, art, dance contemporaries called her "the fourth Charity" – the goddess of beauty. Life is Tais was full of amazing and dangerous adventures, about which you can learn after listening to this audiobook.This brave afinance was bloody roads of war, with the army of Alexander the great, retaining the faith in goodness and love.✦ Other gems of the genre "Soviet sci-Fi" you can listen online at our special collection – https://www.youtube.com/wat...We wish you a pleasant stay when diving in the fantastic events taking place when the Thais with an audiobook called her name, which kindly provided us Ivan Efremov and the company of our channel Audiobooks where you can listen to interesting audio books online.✦ Subscribe to our new channel to not miss the fresh audio books, at this link – https://www.youtube.com/cha...sincerely, channel #Audiobooks