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

by Sarah Spence

Book Overview

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"