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

"In this book, Sarah Spence explores the role of Sicily in the European imagination through the myth of Proserpina, who was abducted by the god of the underworld from the same Mediterranean island. Drawing on the author's training in both classics and medieval studies, the book explores ho...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Spence, Sarah, 1954- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Proserpina > (Roman deity)
Dante Alighieri, > 1265-1321. > Purgatorio.
Proserpina > (Roman deity) > In literature.
Purgatorio (Dante Alighieri)
Literature.
Latin literature.
Latin literature > History and criticism.
Italy > Sicily.
Sicily (Italy) > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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