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A summary of Book III: Cantos i & ii in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of The Faerie Queene and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
- Character List
The hero of Book III, the female warrior virgin, who...
- Book I: Cantos I & II
Summary. Book I tells the story of the knight of Holiness,...
- Book I: Cantos IX & X
A summary of Book I: Cantos ix & x in Edmund Spenser's The...
- Full Book Summary
The themes of Book I and Book III come together in the idea...
- Character List
Take a study break. A summary of Books 7 & 8 in Homer's The Odyssey. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of The Odyssey and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
Summary, themes, line-by-line analysis, poetic devices, form, meter, rhyme scheme, and more.
Summary. When the assembly gathers the next day, wise old Aegyptius points out that the group has not met in session since King Odysseus left for the Trojan War some 20 years before. He commends the citizen who was bold enough to call for the meeting. Encouraged, Telemachus effectively makes his case against the suitors and asks them to desist.
The Book takes a turn toward the meditative with the library at Alma’s castle. The three men they encounter are Phantastes (“melancholy imagination”), Judgment (“wise discernment”), and Eumnestes (“good memory”)—three qualities of the contemplative life, which leads to personal virtue.
Book 3 resumes the story of the rise of the Persian empire after the lengthy digression on the history, geography, and ethnography of Egypt in Book 2 of the Histories. Herodotus picks up with Cambyses’ invasion of Egypt and subsequent unsuccessful campaigns against Carthage, Ammon, and Ethiopia.
A summary of Books Two–Three in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of War and Peace and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
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