Proserpina

Reading notes

• The Loves §3.10 your daughter

  Proserpina, Ceres's daughter, carried off by Dis and made queen of the underworld — a realm only less than Juno's.

• The Heroides §21 Persephone

  Proserpina (Persephone), queen of the dead, whose knocking at the door figures Cydippe's deathly illness at each wedding.

• The Festivals §4.12 Persephone

  Daughter of Ceres, seized by Dis and made queen of the dead; Ovid names her both Persephone and Proserpina.

• Metamorphoses §5.110 Ceres' daughter

  Proserpina (Persephone), daughter of Ceres, whom Venus marks out to be carried off.

• Metamorphoses §10.286 Persephone

  Persephone (Proserpina), queen of the underworld, to whom Orpheus pleads.

• Metamorphoses §10.318 Persephone

  Persephone, who had turned the nymph Mint into the fragrant herb; Venus claims a like power over Adonis's blood.