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The return of Proserpina : cultural poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante / Sarah Spence.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spence, Sarah, 1954- author.
- Series:
- Princeton scholarship online.
- Princeton scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Proserpina (Roman deity)--In literature.
- Proserpina.
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Purgatorio.
- Dante Alighieri.
- Latin literature--Themes, motives.
- Latin literature.
- Sicily (Italy)--In literature.
- Sicily (Italy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (187 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- In the first century BC, Cicero praised Sicily as Rome's first overseas province and confirmed it as the mythic location for the abduction of Proserpina, known to the Greeks as Persephone, by the god of the underworld. 'The Return of Proserpina' takes readers from Roman antiquity to the late Middle Ages to explore how the Mediterranean island offered authors a setting for forces resistant to empire and a location for displaying and reclaiming what has been destroyed.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Negotiating Empire
- The Straits of Messina: Geography and Empire
- Drepanum and the Limits of the Aeneid
- Venus' other son: Cupid and Ovid's empire of poetry
- Claudian, Etna, and the Loss of Proserpina
- The Redemption of Proserpina
- Quando n'apparve una montagna: Purgatory and the Voyage of Ulysses
- Purgatorio, Etna, and the empire of love.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 24, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 9780691227160
- 0691227160
- OCLC:
- 1345589983
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