Authors tell the fable that Ceres was Proserpina's mother, and that Proserpina while playing one day was raped by Pluto.

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.

At Locri, perhaps uniquely, Persephone was the protector of marriage, a role usually assumed by Hera ; in the iconography of votive plaques at Locri, her abduction and marriage to Hades served as an emblem of the marital state, children at Locri were dedicated to Proserpina, and maidens about to be wed brought their peplos to be blessed.

Proserpina was subsumed by the cult of Libera, an ancient fertility goddess, wife of Liber and is also considered a life – death – rebirth deity.

Proserpina was in Sicily, at the Pergusa Lake near Enna, where she was playing with some nymphs and collecting flowers, when Pluto came out from the volcano Etna with four black horses named Orphnaeus, Aethon, Nycteus and Alastor.

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.

Proserpina played her cetra to quiet Cerberus, but Orpheus did not respect her order never to look back, and Eurydice was lost.

26 Proserpina is a Main belt asteroid in diameter, which was discovered by Robert Luther in 1853.

She was originally the central deity in Rome's so-called plebeian or Aventine Triad, then was paired with her daughter Proserpina in what Romans described as " the Greek rites of Ceres ".

From the Middle Republic onwards, expiation was increasingly addressed to her as mother to Proserpina.

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.

Towards the end of the Second Punic War, around 205 BC, an officially recognised joint cult to Ceres and her daughter Proserpina was brought to Rome from southern Italy ( part of Magna Graecia ) along with Greek priestesses to serve it.

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.

According to legend, a round marble altar, Altar of Dis Pater and Proserpina (), was miraculously discovered by the servants of a Sabine called Valesius, the ancestor of the first consul.

The three-form Hecate ( trimorphos ) was identified by Servius with Luna, Diana, and Proserpina.

The altar was possibly underground, as was the nearby altar of Dis Pater and Proserpina.

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.

Ovid mentions that Ceres ' search for her lost daughter Proserpina was represented by women clothed in white, running about with lighted torches.

The Proserpina fountain was brought to the manor at the end of the 19th Century from the Palace of the Dukes of Parma in northern Italy: the Ducal Palace of Colorno.

In addition to the first level – Dracula's castle in Romania – there are another five levels set in other European countries -- Athens, Greece ; Pisa, in Italy ; a weapon factory in Germany ; Versailles, France ; and the fictional Castle Proserpina in England.

The poem is addressed to the goddess Proserpina, the Roman equivalent of Persephone.

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.

Scholars have assumed that Saxo used Proserpina as a goddess equivalent to the Norse Hel.

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.

In Roman mythology, she is called Proserpina, and her mother Ceres.

Cinerary altar with tabula representing the rape of Proserpina.

Proserpina () or Proserpine () is an ancient Roman goddess whose story is the basis of a myth of Springtime.

Worried, Jupiter sent Mercury to order Pluto ( Jupiter's brother ) to free Proserpina.

In another version of the story, Proserpina ate only four pomegranate seeds, and she did so of her own accord.

In the autumn Ceres changes the leaves to shades of brown and orange ( her favorite colors ) as a gift to Proserpina before she has to return to the underworld.

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.

Rape of Proserpina, by Luca Giordano.

Rape of Proserpina, by Ulpiano Checa.

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 ".

This was followed by a long series of popular treatises in rapid succession, amongst the more important of which are Light Science for Leisure Hours and The Sun ( 1871 ); The Orbs around Us and Essays on Astronomy ( 1872 ); The Expanse of Heaven, The Moon and The Borderland of Science ( 1873 ); The Universe and the Coming Transits and Transits of Venus ( 1874 ); Our Place among Infinities ( 1875 ); Myths and Marvels of Astronomy ( 1877 ); The Universe of Stars ( 1878 ); Flowers of the Sky ( 1879 ); The Poetry of Astronomy ( 1880 ); Easy Star Lessons and Familiar Science Studies ( 1882 ); Mysteries of Time and Space and The Great Pyramid ( 1883 ); The Universe of Suns ( 1884 ); The Seasons ( 1885 ); Other Suns than Ours and Half-Hours with the Stars ( 1887 ).

Flowers is currently the director of the Woodharrow Institute of Germanic Studies and the owner and operator of Runa-Raven Press.

* Iris: Studies in Colour and Talks about Flowers

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The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies was edited by Clifton, while the academic publishers AltaMira Press began release of the Pagan Studies Series.

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The Faculty of Divinity became a constituent school of the Faculty of Arts in 2002, while the Faculty of Law was changed in 1984 into the Faculty of Law and Financial Studies, and in 2005 became the Faculty of Law, Business and Social Sciences.

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Studies of schizophrenia have tended to find enlarged ventricles and sometimes reduced volume of the cerebrum and hippocampus, while studies of ( psychotic ) bipolar disorder have sometimes found increased amygdala volume.

Studies of the eclipsing ternary Algol led to the Algol paradox in the theory of stellar evolution: although components of a binary star form at the same time, and massive stars evolve much faster than the less massive ones, it was observed that the more massive component Algol A is still in the main sequence, while the less massive Algol B is a subgiant star at a later evolutionary stage.

An additional $ 5 million in funding was announced to cover development of new software applications, while the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education ( OISE ) was asked to convert 30 existing programs to the new machine.

University of California Berkeley's Institute of Government Studies claimed that Davis ' fundraising skills were " second to none in the political arena " while Senator John McCain called Davis ' 2001 goal of $ 26 million " disgraceful.

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The Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago has a more quantitative and economics approach to policy, the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon uses computational and empirical methods, while the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University has a more political science and leadership based approach.

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Both the American Economic Review and the Review of Economic Studies rejected the paper for " triviality ," while the reviewers for Journal of Political Economy rejected it as incorrect, arguing that if this paper was correct, then no goods could be traded.

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