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The Rape of Proserpina (Italian: Ratto di Proserpina), more accurately translated as The Abduction of Proserpina, [1] is a large Baroque marble group sculpture by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, executed between 1621 and 1622, when Bernini's career was in its early stage.
Proserpina ‘dziewczyna’) – w mitologii greckiej małżonka Hadesa, władczyni świata podziemnego i opiekunka dusz zmarłych. Była córką Demeter i Zeusa. W mitologii rzymskiej Persefonę utożsamiono z Prozerpiną.
Persefona (także; gr. Περσεφόνη Persephónē, gr. Κόρη Kórē, łac. Proserpina ‘dziewczyna’) – w mitologii greckiej małżonka Hadesa, władczyni świata podziemnego i opiekunka dusz zmarłych. Była córką Demeter i Zeusa.
Hades dopuścił się porwania Persefony, którą następnie wziął za żonę. Hades był synem Kronosa, a więc – kuzynem Zeusa. Na Polach Elizejskich spotykają się dusze przeklęte. Wzruszona pieśnią Orfeusza, Persefona pozwoliła mu odejść wraz z żoną do świata żywych. Minos jest jednym z sędziów zmarłych.
In Virgil's Georgics, Orpheus' beloved wife, Eurydice, died from a snake-bite; Proserpina allowed Orpheus into Hades without losing his life; charmed by his music, she allowed him to lead his wife back to the land of the living, as long as he did not look back during the journey.
THE RAPE OF PROSERPINA was the Roman version of the tale of the abduction of the springtime goddess Proserpina by Pluto, king of the underworld. This page includes several Latin versions of the story beginning with the famous account from Ovid's Metamorphoses, followed by several other minor passages.
Abduction of Persephone. The robbery of Persephone in Greek mythology or the robbery of Proserpina in Roman mythology is the story of the abduction of Kore, the daughter of Demeter (Latin: Ceres), by Hades (Latin: Pluto), the ruler of the underworld, of the desperate search of the mother and the solution found, according to which Kore as ...
