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The Return of Proserpina - Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante (Paperback)
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The Return of Proserpina - Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante (Paperback)
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Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of
classical and medieval Europe In the first century BC, Cicero
praised Sicily as Rome's first overseas province and confirmed it
as the mythic location for the abduction of Proserpina, known to
the Greeks as Persephone, by the god of the underworld. The Return
of Proserpina takes readers from Roman antiquity to the late Middle
Ages to explore how the Mediterranean island offered authors a
setting for forces resistant to empire and a location for
displaying and reclaiming what has been destroyed. Using the myth
of Proserpina as a through line, Sarah Spence charts the
relationship Western empire held with its myths and its own past.
She takes an in-depth, panoramic look at a diverse range of texts
set on Sicily, demonstrating how the myth of Proserpina enables a
discussion of empire in terms of balance, loss, and negotiation.
Providing new readings of authors as separated in time and culture
as Vergil, Claudian, and Dante, Spence shows how the shape of
Proserpina's tale and perceptions of the island change from a myth
of loss to one of redemption, with the volcanic Mt. Etna playing an
increasingly central role. Delving into the ways that myth and
geography affect politics and poetics, The Return of Proserpina
explores the power of language and the written word during a period
of tremendous cultural turbulence.
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