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Proserpina and Proserpine
Proserpina's figure inspired many artistic compositions, eminently in sculpture ( Bernini, see The Rape of Proserpina ( Bernini ) ) in painting ( D. G. Rossetti, a fresco by Pomarancio, J. Heintz, A. Durer, Dell ' Abbate, M. Parrish ) and in literature ( Goethe's Proserpina and Swinburne's Hymn to Proserpine and The Garden of Proserpine ) The statue of the Rape of Prosepina by Pluto that stands in the Great Garden ( more correctly, Großer Garten ) of Dresden, Germany is also referred to as " Time Ravages Beauty ".
Proserpina | Proserpine, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Proserpina or Proserpine may also refer to:

Proserpina and is
The poem is addressed to the goddess Proserpina, the Roman equivalent of Persephone.
In Roman mythology, she is called Proserpina, and her mother Ceres.
Proserpina was subsumed by the cult of Libera, an ancient fertility goddess, wife of Liber and is also considered a life – death – rebirth deity.
During the time that Proserpina resides with Pluto, the world goes through winter, a time when the earth is barren.
The myth of Proserpina, the most extensive Latin version of which is by Claudian ( 4th century AD ), is closely connected with that of Orpheus and Eurydice.
In Virgil's writings ; it is Proserpina, as Queen of Hades, who allows Orpheus to enter and bring back to life his wife Eurydice after she is killed by a venomous snake.
26 Proserpina is a Main belt asteroid in diameter, which was discovered by Robert Luther in 1853.
It is a true open-air museum, with Roman and medieval pillars, sarcophagi depicting the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, the other the rape of Proserpina, a fourteenth-century sarcophagus and fragments of the façade of the Duomo.
" When Ceres sought through all the earth with lit torches for Proserpina, who had been seized by Dis Pater, she called her with shouts where three or four roads meet ; from this it has endured in her rites that on certain days a lamentation is raised at the crossroads everywhere by the matronae.
Even then, " her care for mankind continues and the world can rejoice in the warmth of her daughter Proserpina: in Imperial flesh, Proserpina is Faustina the Younger ", empress-wife of Pius ' successor Marcus Aurelius.
Luna is also sometimes represented as an aspect of the Roman triple goddess ( diva triformis ), along with Proserpina and Hecate.
By Proserpina is meant the moon, and her name is on analogy with prope serpens (' creeping near '), for she is moved nearer to the earth than the other planets.
His most important non-political work is an unfinished epic, De raptu Proserpinae (" The Abduction of Proserpina ).
At the far-end of the parterre is a 20th-century copy of a bronze group entitled The Rape of Proserpina ( Italian, c. 1565 ), bought by W. W. Astor from Italy.
26 Proserpina is a main-belt asteroid discovered by R. Luther on May 5, 1853.
It is named after the Roman goddess Proserpina, the daughter of Ceres and the Queen of the Underworld.

Proserpina and ancient
In Ancient Rome and throughout Italy, the ancient sanctuaries of Ceres and Proserpina were invariably led by female sacerdotes, drawn from women of local and Roman elites.
Otherwise, in Rome and throughout Italy, as at her ancient sanctuaries of Henna and Catena, Ceres ' ritus graecus and her joint cult with Proserpina were invariably led by female sacerdotes, drawn from women of local and Roman elites: Cicero notes that once the new cult had been founded, its earliest priestesses " generally were either from Naples or Velia ", cities allied or federated to Rome.
Erecura ( also found as Herecura, Aerecura, Eracura ) was a goddess worshipped in ancient times, often thought to be Celtic in origin, mostly represented with the attributes of Proserpina and associated with the Roman underworld god Dis Pater.

Proserpina and Roman
In Classical Greek and Roman myth, various goddesses represented the Earth, seasons, crops and fertility, including Demeter and Persephone ; Ceres ; the Horae ( goddesses of the seasons ), and Proserpina ; and Hades ( Pluto ) who ruled the souls of dead in the Underworld.
Hence, in Roman mythology she was called Proserpina, a name erroneously derived by the Romans from proserpere, " to shoot forth " and as such became an emblematic figure of the Renaissance.
From at least the mid-republican era, an official, joint cult to Ceres and Proserpina reinforced Ceres ' connection with Roman ideals of female virtue.
According to interpretatio romana, which sought the equivalence of Roman to Greek deities, she was an equivalent to Demeter, one of the Twelve Olympians of Greek religion and mythology ; this made Ceres one of Rome's twelve Di Consentes, daughter of Saturn and Ops, sister of Jupiter, mother of Proserpina by Jupiter and sister of Juno, Vesta, Neptune and Pluto.
From the end of the 3rd century BC, Demeter's temple at Enna, in Sicily, was acknowledged as Ceres ' oldest, most authoritative cult centre, and Libera was recognised as Proserpina, Roman equivalent to Demeter's daughter Persephone.
In 249 BC and 207 BC, the Roman Senate under Senator Lucius Catelli ordained special festivals to appease Dis Pater and Proserpina.
Pluto velificatio | velificans, with a Cupid attending his abduction of Proserpina in a quadriga | four-horse chariot ( Roman cinerary altar, Nerva – Antonine dynasty | Antonine Era, 2nd century )
The name Ataegina is most commonly derived from a Celtic source: the two roots * atte-and * geno-to mean " Reborn " or from * ad-ak < sup > w </ sup > ī-( Irish adaig ) meaning " night ", Epigraphs from the Badajoz region associate the goddess with the Roman Proserpina or Persephone which would make her a goddess presiding over Spring and seasonality, echoing the " reborn " derivation of the name.
The name comes from the Greek goddess Persephone ( Roman: Proserpina ) who is also known as Cora.
According to Roman mythology, the Secular Games began when a Sabine man called Valesius prayed for a cure for his children's illness and was supernaturally instructed to sacrifice on the Campus Martius to Dis Pater and Proserpina, deities of the underworld.
These were " more beneficent honorands, who nonetheless shared with Dis Pater and Proserpina the twin characteristics of being Greek in nomenclature and without cult in the Roman state ".
Proserpina is the Roman goddess of springtime and wife of Pluto.

Proserpina and goddess
In the account of Baldr's death in Saxo Grammaticus ' early 13th century work Gesta Danorum, the dying Baldr has a dream visitation from Proserpina ( here translated as " the goddess of death "):
Scholars have assumed that Saxo used Proserpina as a goddess equivalent to the Norse Hel.
: There is but one god and one goddess, but many are their powers and names: Jupiter, Sol, Apollo, Moses, Christus, Luna, Ceres, Proserpina, Tellus, Maria.

Proserpina and whose
The Secular Games of 249 BC had been dedicated to the underworld deities Dis pater and Proserpina, whose underground altar was in the Tarentum.

Proserpina and story
This story was undoubtedly meant to illustrate the changing of the seasons: when Ceres welcomes her daughter back in the spring the earth blossoms, and when Proserpina must be returned to her husband it withers.
In another version of the story, Proserpina ate only four pomegranate seeds, and she did so of her own accord.
The story looks to be an adaptation of the myth of Pluto and Proserpina.

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