In the center of the historical narrative is the famous Athenian hetaera Thais. An intelligent, educated, beautiful woman learned a lot in her young years, filled not only with beautiful, not always happy love, but also with amazing adventures and cruel trials. Theis traveled with Alexander the Great and his army on many battle roads and reached one of the Persian capitals, Persepolis. According to legend, it was she who burned the city to the ground, taking revenge for the plunder and burning of Athens by the Persians. Every word of the novel is covered with love and admiration for a woman and her beauty: not only body and soul, mind, everything that she was gifted by the Creator.