Talk:Proserpina

Latest revision as of 06:37, 29 August 2009

this page needs to be re-titled Proserpina. I've taken out the mythology and padding. Marca Hortensia Maior

These are religio articles; with articles of Roman gods use Latin names. Keep to the style. Which is why we have a Cultus Task Force. Apollo has no Latin name, so he's Apollo. If you don't know anything about the Roman cult of Prosperpina, dont' write an article. Read a book or monograph,there is a good book on Ceres, there should be plenty of material on the feriae of Ceres and Proserpina, write about that. Look at the reading list of the cultus deorum. And you were told to stop padding with myth; .Marca Hortensia Maior

The Romans called her Persephone as well:

The Trinacrian land took its name from its shape: It runs out in three rocky capes to the vast ocean. It’s a place dear to Ceres. She owns, there, many cities, Among them fertile Enna, with its well-ploughed soul. Cool Arethusa gathered together the mothers of the gods: And the yellow-haired goddess came to the sacred feast. Her daughter, Persephone, attended by girls, as ever, Wandered barefoot through Enna’s meadows. In a shadow-filled valley there’s a place, Wet by the copious spray from a high fall. All the colours of nature were displayed there, And the earth was bright with hues of various flowers. On seeing it she cried: ‘Come here to me, my friends, And each carry back, with me, a lapful of flowers.’ The foolish prize enticed their girlish spirits, And they were too busy to feel weary. - Ovid, Fasti IV