One character in this work dreams that Mercury tells him to travel to Athens, so he goes there dressed as a poor laborer. The third of three sequential prayers in this work is met with a god's armor r
One character in this work dreams that Mercury tells him to travel to Athens, so he goes there dressed as a poor laborer. The third of three sequential prayers in this work is met with a god's armor ringing as well as a murmur of the word "Victory." That prayer to Mars follows opposing prayers to Diana and Venus in this work. Saturn's intervention prevents the winner of a battle from claiming the prize after having recruited (*) 100 fighters for that battle. The basis for this work's plot was Boccaccio's Teseida, and this work was also used as the basis for Fletcher and Shakespeare's The Two Noble Kinsmen. The central characters in this work are imprisoned in a tower in Theseus's castle, and both of those character fall in love with Emily. For 10 points, name this story about Arcite and Palamon, the first of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
One character in this work dreams that Mercury tells him to travel to Athens, so he goes there dressed as a poor laborer.
"The Knight's Tale"