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Proserpine

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Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name
Proserpine
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
The source gives Proserpine power over ghosts and directs prayers to her but does not explicitly call her a goddess in this book.

Aliases

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No aliases recorded.

Location presence

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No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

4
·Reported

Dread Proserpine leaves Teiresias his understanding in death while other ghosts flit aimlessly.

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dread Proserpine to consult the ghost of the blind Theban prophet Teiresias, whose reason is still unshaken. To him alone has Proserpine left his understanding even in death, but the other ghosts flit about aimlessly
·Hypothetical

Proserpine is to receive prayers and the burnt sacrifice of the two sheep.

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burnt sacrifice with prayers to Hades and to Proserpine
·Remembered

Proserpine receives prayers while the sheep carcasses are flayed and burnt.

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repeat prayers to Hades and to Proserpine
·Remembered

Proserpine sends up famous men’s wives and daughters, who crowd around the blood.

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Proserpine sent up the ghosts of the wives and daughters of all the most famous men. They gathered in crowds about the blood

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

2
·Reported
dread Proserpine
·Remembered
and to Proserpine

Passage preview

Book 10 · Passage 41

‘And the goddess answered, ‘Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, you shall none of you stay here any longer if you do not want to, but there is another journey which you have got to take before you can sail homewards. You must go to the house of Hades and of dread Proserpine to consult the ghost of the blind Theban prophet Teiresias, whose reason is still unshaken. To him alone has Proserpine left his understanding even in death, but the other ghosts flit about aimlessly.’