Proserpina

(redirected from Proserpine)
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Wikipedia.

Related to Proserpine: Persephone

Proserpina

(religion, spiritualism, and occult)

Proserpina, asteroid 26 (the 26th asteroid to be discovered, on May 5, 1853), is approximately 88 kilometers in diameter and has an orbital period of 4.3 years. Proserpina was the Roman name for the Greek Persephone, who was kidnapped by Hades and taken to the underworld to become his queen. According to Martha Lang-Wescott, Proserpina represents rites of passage—infant awareness of separateness, adolescent crisis, leaving home for school, marriage, job change, or personal growth. This asteroid’s key word is “transition.”

Sources:

Lang-Wescott, Martha. Asteroids-Mechanics: Ephemerides II. Conway, MA: Treehouse Mountain, 1990.

Lang-Wescott. Mechanics of the Future: Asteroids. Rev. ed. Conway, MA: Treehouse Mountain, 1991.

Schwartz, Jacob. Asteroid Name Encyclopedia. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1995.

Proserpina

(Gk. Persephone) whisked away by lustful Pluto in chariot. [Rom. Lit.: Metamorphoses; Fasti; Art: Hall, 260]

See: Abduction

Mentioned in ?

References in periodicals archive ?

Proserpine, 1878, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82), watercolour with bodycolour on paper mounted on wood, 77.5 x 37.5cm.

Collectors' Focus The Pre-Raphaelites

Based on an 1838 French play by Auguste Vacquerie, Proserpine is a 4-act tale of love and passion set in Renaissance Florence.

PROSERPINE: SAINT-SAENS

Rejoicing in the chace, all-graceful pow'r, Sweet plant of Venus, Love's delightful flow'r: Descended from the secret bed divine, Of lovely-hair'd, infernal Proserpine. (6) Ovid (Met.

Ovid's Ceres and the Courtship of Adonis in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis

This is true of the most famous, the "Hymn to Proserpine" from Poems and Ballads, first series.

Swinburne among the hexametrists

* catching my first ever barramundi (which happened to be a monster at 103 cm and 15 kg) on Lake Proserpine;

Being a soil scientist

In the poem, Lawrence alludes to Pluto, who was "Proserpine's master", as "the dark one" (63), as well as to Persephone, Proserpine and Ceres.

D. H. Lawrence and Sicily/D. H. Lawrence ve Sicilya

Haunting: Proserpine, by Dante Gabriel Rosetti (Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery).

ART TREASURES UNCOVERED AT CLICK OF MOUSE

Within the somewherehouse, the great myths of Greece and Yorubaland combine, as Mama Proserpine shares an inimical relationship with Aya.

Textual transgressions and consuming the self in the fiction of Helen Oyeyemi and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Les Romains, quant a eux, racontaient que les sirenes etaient a l'origine des suivantes de Proserpine, et que c'est suite a l'episode de l'enlevement de Proserpine que Ceres, sa mere, les a transformees en femmes-oiseaux.

Sirenes, Gorgones, Meduse et les monstres marins. Les evolutions d'un mythe dans la litterature et l'art

423: Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean- Algernon Swinburne, "Hymn to Proserpine" (1866)

Literary allusions in Saul Bellow's letters

A short flight took us into Proserpine, the gateway to the Whitsunday Islands and the supposed sunnier climes of our second destination, Queensland.

Living the idyllic Australian dream; Luke Traynor finds rain and shine in Victoria and on the heralded Sunshine Coast