Rape of Proserpina, by Luca Giordano

Proserpine, 1873-1877, at Tate Gallery, London. Painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

This copy of Vincenzo de'Rossi's "The Rape of Proserpina" on a pedestal in The Ring of the Parterre faces the Garden Front of Cliveden House

Proserpina is an ancient goddess whose story is the basis of a myth of Springtime. She is the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Persephone. Proserpina was subsumed by the cult of Libera, an ancient fertility goddess, wife of Liber. Her name comes from proserpere meaning "to emerge." She is a life–death–rebirth deity. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (3200x2122, 769 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Proserpina ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (3200x2122, 769 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Proserpina ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (336x729, 38 KB) Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Proserpine (Oil on canvas, 1874) - Tate Gallery, London File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Proserpina Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Dante Gabriel Rossetti... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (336x729, 38 KB) Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Proserpine (Oil on canvas, 1874) - Tate Gallery, London File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Proserpina Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Dante Gabriel Rossetti... Dante Gabriel Rossetti (May 12, 1828 - April 10, 1882) was an English poet, painter and translator. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (499x750, 56 KB) This copy of Vincenzo deRossis The Rape of Proserpina is on a pedestal in The Ring of the Parterre faces the Garden Front of Cliveden House Source: http://www. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (499x750, 56 KB) This copy of Vincenzo deRossis The Rape of Proserpina is on a pedestal in The Ring of the Parterre faces the Garden Front of Cliveden House Source: http://www. ... Statue of Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture For the 1934 film, see, see The Goddess (1934 film). ... The word mythology (from the Greek μυολογία mythología, from mythologein to relate myths, from mythos, meaning a narrative, and logos, meaning speech or argument) literally means the (oral) retelling of myths – stories that a particular culture believes to be true and that use the supernatural to interpret natural events and... Spring is one of the four seasons of temperate zones. ... Proserpine by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1874) (Tate Gallery, London In Greek mythology, Persephone (Greek Περσεφόνη, PersephónÄ“) was the Queen of the Underworld of epic literature. ... Drinking scene with Dionysus and Ariadne on his lap. ... Many cultures developed deities to watch over and promote fertility, pregnancy, and birth. ... Bacchus by Caravaggio Dionysus, the name of a god, is occasionally confused with one of several historical figures named Dionysius. ... The category life-death-rebirth deity also known as a dying-and-rising god is a convenient means of classifying the many divinities in world mythology who are born, suffer death or an eclipse or other death-like experience, pass a phase in the underworld among the dead, and are...

She was the daughter of Ceres and Jupiter, and was described as a very enchanting young girl. In Roman mythology, Ceres was the goddess of growing plants (particularly cereals) and of motherly love. ... Jupiter et Thétis - by Jean Ingres, 1811. ...

Venus, in order to bring love to Pluto, sent her son Amor also known as Cupid to hit Pluto with one of his arrows. Proserpina was in Sicily, at the fountain of Arethusa near Enna, where she was playing with some nymphs and collecting flowers, when Pluto came out from the volcano Etna with four black horses. He abducted her in order to marry her and live with her in Hades, the Greco-Roman Underworld, of which he was the ruler. Notably, Pluto was also her uncle, being Jupiter's (and Ceres's) brother. She is therefore Queen of the Underworld. Venus is the Roman goddess of love, equivalent to Greek Aphrodite and Etruscan Turan. ... Pluto is an alternate name for the Greek god Hades, but was more often used in Roman mythology in their presentation of the god of the underworld. ... Amor (love) was also an alternate name for Cupid, the Roman god of love. ... It has been suggested that Cupid (holiday character) be merged into this article or section. ... Sicily (Sicilia in Italian and Sicilian) is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,708 km² (9,926 sq. ... Arethusa means the waterer. She was a nymph and daughter of Nereus (making her a Nereid), [1] and later became a fountain on the island of Ortygia in Syracuse, Sicily. ... Enna, the ancient Haenna, is a city located in the center of Sicily in the province of Enna, towering above the surrounding countryside. ... In Greek mythology, a nymph is any member of a large class of female nature entities, either bound to a particular location or landform or joining the retinue of a god or goddess. ... A Phalaenopsis flower Rudbeckia fulgida A flower, (<Old French flo(u)r<Latin florem<flos), also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms). ... For other uses, see Volcano (disambiguation). ... For other meanings of Etna, see Etna (disambiguation). ... Hades, Greek god of the underworld, enthroned, with his bird-headed staff, on a red-figure Apulian vase made in the 4th century BC. For other uses, see Hades (disambiguation). ... // In the study of mythology and religion, the underworld is a generic term approximately equivalent to the lay term afterlife, referring to any place to which newly dead souls go. ... // In the study of mythology and religion, the underworld is a generic term approximately equivalent to the lay term afterlife, referring to any place to which newly dead souls go. ...

Her mother Ceres, the goddess of cereals or of the Earth, vainly went looking for her in any corner of the Earth, but wasn't able to find anything but a small belt that was floating upon a little lake (made with the tears of the nymphs). In her desperation Ceres angrily stopped the growth of fruits and vegetables, bestowing a malediction on Sicily. Ceres refused to go back to Mount Olympus and started walking on the Earth, making a desert at every step. Statue of Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture For the 1934 film, see, see The Goddess (1934 film). ... This article is about cereals in general. ... This article is about Earth as a planet. ... For other uses, see Fruit (disambiguation). ... A plate of vegetables Vegetable is a culinary term which generally refers to an edible part of a plant. ... Look up Curse in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Sicily (Sicilia in Italian and Sicilian) is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,708 km² (9,926 sq. ... Mount Olympus (Greek: ; also transliterated as Mount Ólympos, and on modern maps, Óros Ólimbos) is the highest mountain in Greece at 2,919 meters high (9,576 feet)[1]. Since its base is located at sea level, it is one of the highest mountains in Europe, in real absolute altitude... This article is about arid terrain. ...

Worried, Jupiter sent Mercury to order Pluto (Jupiter's brother) to free Proserpina. Pluto obeyed, but before letting her go, he made her eat six pomegranate seeds (a symbol of fidelity in marriage) so she would have to live six months of each year with him, and stay the rest with her mother. So this is the reason for Springtime: when Proserpina comes back to her mother, Ceres decorates the Earth with welcoming flowers, but when in autumn she has to go back to Hades, nature loses any colour. Jupiter et Thétis - by Jean Ingres, 1811. ... A sculpture of the Roman god Mercury by 17th-century Flemish artist Artus Quellinus. ... Binomial name L. The Pomegranate (Punica granatum) is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small tree growing to 5–8 m tall. ... For the record label, see Marriage Records. ... Spring is one of the four seasons of temperate zones. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

In another version of the story, some people believe that upon her abduction, Proserpina ate only four pomegranate seeds, and she did so of her own accord. When Jupiter ordered her return, Pluto struck a deal with Jupiter, saying that since she had stolen his pomegranate seeds, she must stay with him four months of the year in return. For this reason, in spring when Ceres received her daughter back, the crops blossomed, and in summer they flourished. In the autumn Ceres changed the leaves to shades of brown and orange (her favorite colors) as a gift to Proserpina before she had to return to the underworld. During the time that Proserpina resided with Pluto, the world went through winter, a time when the earth was barren. For other uses, see Summer (disambiguation). ... Winter is one of the four seasons of temperate zones. ...

The myth of Proserpina, mainly described by the Roman Claudianus (4th century AD) is closely connected with that of Orpheus and Eurydice — it is Proserpina, as Queen of Hades, who allows Orpheus to enter and bring back to life his wife Eurydice who is dead by snake poison. Proserpina played her cetra to quiet Cerberus, but Orpheus did not respect her order never to look back, and Eurydice was lost. The word mythology (from the Greek μυολογία mythología, from mythologein to relate myths, from mythos, meaning a narrative, and logos, meaning speech or argument) literally means the (oral) retelling of myths – stories that a particular culture believes to be true and that use the supernatural to interpret natural events and... Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea. ... As a means of recording the passage of time, the 4th century was that century which lasted from 301 to 400. ... The head of Orpheus, from an 1865 painting by Gustave Moreau. ... In Greek mythology, there were several characters named Eurydice (Eurydíkê, Ευρυδίκη). // The most famous was a woman — or a nymph — who was the wife of Orpheus. ... Heracles and threatened Cerberus, Attic black-figure neck-amphora, ca. ...

Proserpina's figure inspired many artistic compositions, eminently in sculpture (Bernini [1]), in painting (D.G.Rossetti [2], Pomarancio [3], J.Heintz [4], P.P.Rubens [5], A.Durer [6], Dell'Abbate [7], M.Parrish [8]) and in literature (Goethe [9] and Swinburne's Hymn to Proserpine) The Bath, a painting by Mary Cassatt (1844–1926). ... A sculpture is a three-dimensional object, which for the purposes of this article is man-made and selected for special recognition as art. ... Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini; December 7, 1598 – November 28, 1680) was a pre-eminent Baroque sculptor and architect of 17th century Rome. ...  , IPA: , (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath. ... Algernon Swinburne, Portrait by Rossetti Algernon Charles Swinburne (April 5, 1837 – April 10, 1909) was a Victorian era English poet. ... Hymn to Proserpine is a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne, published in 1866. ...

For reasons that may be obvious, a variety of pomegranate is called Proserpina. Binomial name L. The Pomegranate (Punica granatum) is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small tree growing to 5–8 m tall. ...

Proserpina is the title of a book by John Ruskin in which he describes and discusses the form, structure and function of wayside flowers. Upper: Steel-plate engraving of Ruskin as a young man, made circa 1845, scanned from print made circa 1895. ...

Proserpina is sometimes spelled Prosperine or Prosperina.

Proserpina in astronomy

Proserpina is a Main belt asteroid 95.1km in diameter, which was discovered by R. Luther in1853. 26 Proserpina (proh-sur-pi-na) is a Main belt asteroid. ... The asteroid belt is a region of the solar system falling roughly between the planets Mars and Jupiter where the greatest concentration of asteroid orbits can be found. ... 253 Mathilde, a C-type asteroid. ... Karl Theodor Robert Luther (April 16, 1822 &#8211; February 15, 1900) was a German astronomer who searched for asteroids while working in Düsseldorf. ... 1853 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

Further reading

• Pluto and Proserpina
• Anthesphoria, festival honoring Proserpina(pros-er-pin-a)

Image File history File links Commons-logo. ... The Wikimedia Commons (also called Wikicommons) is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files. ... The Roman equivalent of Hades and Persephone. ... Anthesphoria, in antiquity, was a flower-festival celebrated in Sicily, and to a lesser extent Peloponnesus, in honor of Proserpine (or Persephone in Greek mythology). ...

References

John Ruskin (1886). Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers while the Air was Yet Pure among the Alps and in the Scotland and England Which My Father Knew.

External links

• The Pomegranate Seeds adapted as a children's tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne, in Tanglewood Tales