Ptolemy then marries Alexander's mistress, Thaïs and commences to reign as king of Egypt and the adjacent Libyan and Arabian regions.

At the time, Thaïs was the lover of Ptolemy I Soter, one of Alexander's generals.

Athenaeus also says that after Alexander's death Ptolemy married Thaïs, who bore him three children.

It has been argued that Thaïs was at this time Alexander's lover.

These included Nelusko in L ' Africaine ( Meyerbeer's last opera ), Mephistopheles in La damnation de Faust ( a role also sung by basses ), the Priest of Dagon in Samson and Delilah, Escamillo in Carmen, Zurga in Les pêcheurs de perles, Lescaut in Manon, Athanael in Thaïs and Herod in Hérodiade.

Other operas in her repertoire included La bohème, La traviata, Faust, Manon, Andrea Chénier, Thaïs, Les contes d ' Hoffmann ( as the courtesan Giulietta ), Rigoletto, Mefistofele ( as both Margarita and Elena ), Adriana Lecouvreur, Tosca, Hérodiade ( as Salomé ), Carmen ( the title role ), Siberia, and Zazà.

* Thaïs ( Thaïs ), directed by Anton Giulio Bragaglia ( 1916 )

Some of his non-vocal output has achieved widespread popularity, and is commonly performed: for example the Méditation from Thaïs, which is a violin solo with orchestra, as well as the Aragonaise, from his opera Le Cid and the Élégie for cello and orchestra ( from his incidental music to Les Érinnyes ).

Thaïs was present at the party and gave a speech which convinced Alexander to burn the palace.

Her larger-than-life persona has resulted in characters named Thaïs appearing in several literary works, the most famous of which are listed below.

Thaïs takes place in Egypt during Byzantine rule, where a Cenobite monk, Athanaël, attempts to convert Thaïs, an Alexandrian courtesan and devotee of Venus, to Christianity, but discovers too late that his obsession with her is rooted in lust ; while the courtesan's true purity of heart is revealed, so is the religious man's baser nature.

His greatest successes were Manon in 1884, Werther in 1892, and Thaïs in 1894. Notable later operas were Le jongleur de Notre-Dame, produced in 1902, and Don Quichotte, produced in Monte Carlo 1910, with the legendary Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin in the title-role.

In 2003, Fleming sang Imogene in at the Met, the title role in Massenet's Thaïs with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Rusalka at Covent Garden, and Violetta in La traviata with both Houston Grand Opera and the Metropolitan Opera.

In 2007, Fleming sang Violetta with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Tatyana in Eugene Onegin and Violetta at the Metropolitan Opera, Arabella with Zurich Opera, and Thaïs at the Théâtre du Châtelet, The Royal Opera, London, Vienna State Opera, and the Liceu, Barcelona.

* Massenet: Thaïs ( with Sills, Gedda, van Allan – Maazel, cond.

She began her career as a chorister with the Carl Rosa Opera Company and steadily took on larger roles such as Kate Pinkerton and the lead role of Cio Cio San in Madama Butterfly, Micaela in Carmen, Musetta in Puccini's La bohème, Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana, Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, Freia in Das Rheingold, Elsa in Lohengrin, Brünnhilde in Der Ring des Nibelungen, Leonora in La forza del destino, Leonora in Fidelio, Eva in Die Meistersinger, and the title roles in Aida, Tosca and Thaïs.

In addition to running a fiscally sound company with packed houses, its deficit reduced by two-thirds, and exciting productions such as the city's first Thaïs in 1976, another of George London's major achievements was the renaming of the company, first announced in The Washington Post on 13 May 1977.

Among the most famous were Thargelia, a renowned Ionian hetaera of ancient times ; Aspasia, companion of Pericles ; Archeanassa, companion of Plato ; the famous Neaira ; Thaïs, a concubine of Ptolemy, who was one of the generals on the expeditions of Alexander the Great and later became king of Egypt ; Lais of Corinth, the famed beauty who lived during the Peloponnesian War ; Lais of Hyccara, a courtesan who is said to have provided her services to the philosopher Diogenes free of charge ; and the famously beautiful Phryne, the model and muse of the sculptor Praxiteles.

Thaïs () was a famous Greek hetaera who lived during the time of Alexander the Great and accompanied him on his campaigns.

Thaïs apparently came from Athens and accompanied Alexander throughout his campaign in Asia minor.

Lodovico Carracci, Alexander and Thaïs

Thaïs and Alexander the Great are conjured by Faustus in Christopher Marlowe's play Doctor Faustus for the amusement of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.

Thaïs is a supporting character in two novels by Mary Renault about Alexander the Great: Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy, as well as in Renault's biography of Alexander, " The Nature of Alexander.

It tells the story of the famous hetaera Thaïs, who was one of Alexander the Great's contemporaries and companions on his conquest of the oikoumene or the known world.

" Thaïs is the heroine of a 1972 novel by the Russian author Ivan Efremov, Thais of Athens.

Thaïs ( pronounced tah-eess / ta :' i: s ) is an opera in three acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Louis Gallet based on the novel Thaïs by Anatole France.

The poem's account of the feast ends by comparing Thaïs to Helen of Troy: " Thaïs led the way / To light him to his prey / And like another Helen, fired another Troy.

She also sang in Castor et Pollux by Rameau and Thaïs by Massenet.

In Terence's play Eunuchus, there is a female protagonist who is a courtesan named Thaïs after the historical figure.

After Alexander's death he was again expelled, and took refuge with Ptolemy in Egypt, where he appears to have met with a somewhat cold reception.

He appears never to have been a danger for Alexander's succession to Philip II, notwithstanding their being of about the same age ; all the same, when the satrap of Caria Pixodarus proposed his daughter in marriage to Philip, who offered Arrhidaeus as husband, Alexander thought it prudent to block the operation, with considerable irritation of his father ( 337 BC ).

Princess Eilonwy () is a fictional character in Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain and wife of High King Taran in the Chronicles of Prydain and also appears in Disney's 1985 animated film The Black Cauldron.

Also during the third season, Fred Astaire played Alistair Mundy, Alexander's father, also a master gentleman-thief, who says bemusedly, at the start of each episode in which he appears, " I've heard of stealing from the government, but for the government?

When Raimi kills Alexander's body, Gigi appears and gets pulled into Alexander's body by Volks ' Demon.

Despoina, ( the mistress ) the goddess of the Arcadian mysteries, is the daughter of Demeter and Poseidon Hippios ( horse ), who represents the river spirit of the underworld that appears as a horse as often happens in northern-European folklore.

" He finds the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights to be a rather strange group: Mr. Heathcliff appears a gentleman but his mannerisms suggest otherwise ; the reserved mistress of the house is in her mid-teens ; and a young man appears to be one of the family, although he dresses and talks like a servant.

And finally, it appears in Linear B on Knossos Tablet Gg702 as da-pu < sub > 2 </ sub >- ri-to-jo po-ti-ni-ja, which probably writes Mycenaean Greek Daburinthoio potniai, " to the mistress of the Labyrinth ," recording the distribution of one jar of honey.

Merlin returns to Amber, ventures out into Amber City, escapes an assassination attempt, and is saved by Caine's mistress, Vinta Bayle-who, also, appears to know more than she ought about him.

Selma Diamond, another former Your Show of Shows writer ( who inspired Rose Marie's ' Sally Rogers ' character on The Dick Van Dyke Show ), appears as a costume mistress.

The most famous reference to medlars, often bowdlerized until modern editions accepted it, appears in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, when Mercutio laughs at Romeo's unrequited love for his mistress Rosaline ( II, 1, 34-38 ):

A depiction of Nonsuch Palace appears in season 3 episode 8 of the television series The Tudors, seen in the distance when Henry VIII rides out to show it to his mistress Catherine Howard.

Kirara appears there as a cuddly little kitten with two tails when calm, but she rapidly morphs into a giant, flying saber-toothed tiger, when provoked or when ever her mistress ' Sango ' orders the cat to do so.

It is also likely not a coincidence that Rachman's one-time mistress, Mandy Rice-Davies, appears in Temple's film as the teenage protagonist's promiscuous mother, who runs the boarding house where she resides and often cuckolds her husband with " gigolo lodgers ".

Although their daring plan appears to have succeeded, Pierce, Agar and Burgess are ultimately apprehended after Agar's mistress, who has been arrested for robbing a drunk, becomes a police informant to escape imprisonment, and Agar confesses after being threatened by the police with transportation to Australia.

The Legend of the Golden Shiptells the myth of a beautiful fairy that dwells in the caves of the town's mountainous forests and seduces young men every full moon wherein an illusionary lake appears inside the cave of Balisong and the mistress disappears with her victims in a golden ship along with the fading of the lake at sunrise.

She appears in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris ( 2011 ) alongside Rachel McAdams and Owen Wilson, cast as Adriana, a fictionalized mistress of Pablo Picasso.