The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante

by Sarah Spence

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Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of classical and medieval Europe

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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691227179

ISBN13:9780691227177

Release Date:January 2023

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:232 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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