Proserpina (disambiguation)

Proserpina (disambiguation)

Proserpina, or Proserpine, can refer to several things:

* Proserpina, the Roman goddess of springtime, wife of Pluto and equivalent of the Greek goddess Persephone
* Proserpine, Opera of Jean-Baptiste Lully
* 26 Proserpina, an asteroid discovered in 1853
* Proserpine, Queensland, the name of a town in far north Queensland, Australia
* Prosperpina (Pak protector), a character in Larry Niven's Known Space universe, featured in the Ringworld saga in "Ringworld's Children"
* "Song of Proserpine", a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley
* "Proserpine (play)", an 1820 play by Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
*Proserpina, a book about wayside flowers by John Ruskin
* "Proserpine", a French age of sail frigate built in 1785, captured by the Royal Navy in 1796 and renamed HMS "Amelia". She was broken up in December 1816.


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