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  1. The return of Proserpina
    cultural poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante
    Published: [2023]; © 2023
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton ; Oxford

    "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... more

    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    "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 how mythic narrative reflects ideas about ancient and medieval empires and engages with debates about the nature of the classical tradition as it evolved during the Middle Ages. Spence argues that the narrative structure of the Proserpina myth, the history of Sicily, and ideas about empire come to reflect, refract, and refine one another through literature, including works by Cicero, Vergil, Ovid, Claudian, and Dante. More broadly, Spence considers the way in which literature offers a space for political deliberation and imagination. While Roman poets focus on Proserpina's abduction as a means for discussing the problems of imperial expansion, for example, high medieval renderings of the myth-invoked in discussions of a new Christian empire shaped by the Crusades-instead focus on the loss of Proserpina, her eventual return, and the necessary negotiations her return involves. In this way, the tale of Proserpina and the history of Sicily trace the changing needs and understandings of empire, literature, and the complicated links between the two."

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780691227177; 9780691227184
    Subjects: Literatur; Rezeption; Mythos
    Other subjects: Ovidius Naso, Publius (v43-17); Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Claudianus, Claudius (370-408); Proserpina; Cicero, Marcus Tullius (v106-v43); Vergilius Maro, Publius (v70-v19); Proserpina / (Roman deity) / In literature; Dante Alighieri / 1265-1321 / Purgatorio; Latin literature / History and criticism; Sicily (Italy) / In literature; Proserpina / (Roman deity); Purgatorio (Dante Alighieri); Latin literature; Literature; Italy / Sicily; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: xii, 215 Seiten, Illustration, Karte
    Notes:

    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