Proserpina

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 24 §38 and Proserpina

  Goddess carried off by the lord of the underworld at Henna in Sicily; her cult made the city's ground hallowed, deepening the horror of the massacre there.

• The History of Rome, Book 29 §8 Proserpina

  Proserpina (Greek Persephone), whose richly endowed temple at Locri was inviolate until Pleminius despoiled it.

• The History of Rome, Book 31 §10 Proserpina

  Proserpina, goddess of the underworld, whose treasury at Locri was plundered.

• The History of Rome, Book 32 §1 Proserpina

  Goddess of the underworld whose plundered shrine at Locri required expiation.