The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante by Sarah Spence

The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante

Sarah Spence

232 pages missing pub info (editions)

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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 o...

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