# Salammbô — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Salammbô by Gustave Flaubert.

- [I: The Feast](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/salammb_se/chapters/i-the-feast.md): The Mercenaries, after the First Punic War, hold a lavish feast in the gardens of Hamilcar Barca. Tensions rise as they feel betrayed by Carthage, leading to violence, destruction, and sacrilege. Salammbô, Hamilcar's dau
- [At Sicca](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/salammb_se/chapters/ii-at-sicca.md): The Mercenaries depart Carthage for Sicca, where they await payment and grow restless. Their idleness leads to disputes and plotting, culminating in the arrival of the Suffet Hanno, whose attempt to placate them fails, i
- [III: Salammbô](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/salammb_se/chapters/iii-salammb.md): Salammbô performs a moonlit ritual on her palace terrace, expressing her deep devotion and longing for the goddess Tanith. She summons the high priest Schahabarim, who recounts the cosmogony of the gods but refuses to le
- [IV: Beneath the Walls of Carthage](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/salammb_se/chapters/iv-beneath-the-walls-of-carthage.md): The mercenary army, having marched from Sicca, encamps before Carthage, demanding full payment and more. Gisco is sent to negotiate and begins paying the soldiers, but Spendius and Autaritus stir up distrust among the Li
- [V: Tanith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/salammb_se/chapters/v-tanith.md): Matho and Spendius infiltrate the temple of Tanith in Carthage to steal the sacred zaïmph, a divine veil that grants power to Carthage. Matho hesitates due to sacrilege but is persuaded by Spendius's arguments of revenge

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- [Hanno](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/salammb_se/chapters/vi-hanno.md)
- [VII: Hamilcar Barca](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/salammb_se/chapters/vii-hamilcar-barca.md)
- [VIII: The Battle of the Macaras](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/salammb_se/chapters/viii-the-battle-of-the-macaras.md)
- [IX: In the Field](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/salammb_se/chapters/ix-in-the-field.md)
- [X: The Serpent](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/salammb_se/chapters/x-the-serpent.md)
- [XI: In the Tent](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/salammb_se/chapters/xi-in-the-tent.md)
- [XII: The Aqueduct](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/salammb_se/chapters/xii-the-aqueduct.md)
- [XIII: Moloch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/salammb_se/chapters/xiii-moloch.md)
- [XIV: The Pass of the Hatchet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/salammb_se/chapters/xiv-the-pass-of-the-hatchet.md)
- [XV: Matho](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/salammb_se/chapters/xv-matho.md)

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