Proserpina

Also known as: Proserpine · Family: Olympian · Role: goddess · First appears: Fable 51

Life events

• Pluto seizes Proserpina and carries her away by force.(Fable51 · 📍 Henna)
  • With: Pluto
  • “There the spring is perpetual. In this grove, while Proserpina is amusing herself, and is plucking either violets or white lilies, and while, with childlike eagerness, she is filling her baskets and her bosom, and is striving to outdo {her companions} of the same age in gathering, almost at the same instant she is beheld, beloved, and seized by Pluto;[47] in such great haste is love.”

Fable 51

• parent: Ceres (Ceres is Proserpina's mother.) “Ceres goes everywhere in search of her daughter”
• with Pluto (Pluto abducts Proserpina.) “In this grove, while Proserpina is amusing herself, and is plucking either violets or white lilies, and while, with childlike eagerness, she is filling her baskets and her bosom, and is striving to outdo {her companions} of the same age in gathering, almost at the same instant she is beheld, beloved, and seized by Pluto”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.