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

The Return of Proserpina : : Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante / / Sarah Spence.

Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of classical and medieval EuropeIn 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...

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Spence, Sarah,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 3 b/w illus. 1 map.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Map. Sicily
  • Introduction: Negotiating Empire
  • 1 The Straits of Messina
  • 2 Drepanum and the Limits of the Aeneid
  • 3 Venus’s Other Son
  • 4 Claudian, Etna, and the Loss of Proserpina
  • 5 The Redemption of Proserpina
  • 6 Quando n’apparve una montagna
  • 7 Purgatorio, Etna, and the Empire of Love
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • A NOTE ON THE TYPE

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