Thais and the burning of the royal palace at Persepolis.
Thais and the burning of the royal palace at Persepolis.
Why did Alexander listen to her? History may be obscuring the true reason.
Quote: It was the hetaira Thaïs who captivated both Alexander the Great and later Ptolemy I, the founder of the library at Alexandria. At the conclusion of a symposium, she was thought to have incited Alexander to burn Persepolis in revenge for the destruction of the Acropolis by Xerxes, the son of Darius, a century and a half earlier.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/greece/hetairai/thais.html
Why did Alexander listen to her? History may be obscuring the true reason.
Quote: It was the hetaira Thaïs who captivated both Alexander the Great and later Ptolemy I, the founder of the library at Alexandria. At the conclusion of a symposium, she was thought to have incited Alexander to burn Persepolis in revenge for the destruction of the Acropolis by Xerxes, the son of Darius, a century and a half earlier.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/greece/hetairai/thais.html
There is likely an artifact still in situ.
ReplyDeleteI shouldn't rule out other possibilities too soon. Is Perseopolis the site of a major Portal or Nest?
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