Proserpina (disambiguation)
Proserpina or Proserpine is the Roman goddess of springtime and wife of Pluto.
It may also refer to:
- Proserpina Dam, Mérida
- Proserpina (gastropod), genus of land snails in the family Proserpinidae
- Proserpine (Lully), an opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully
- Proserpine (play), an 1820 play by Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Proserpine (Rossetti painting), a painting by artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1874)
- Proserpine, Queensland, a town in Queensland, Australia
- French frigate Proserpine (1785)
- HMS Proserpine, any one of several ships of the Royal Navy
- USS Proserpine (ARL-21), a United States Navy Achelous-class landing craft repair ship commissioned in 1945
- 26 Proserpina, an asteroid discovered in 1853
- Proserpina, an 1879 book by John Ruskin about wayside flowers
- Prosperpina, a character in Larry Niven's Ringworld's Children
See also
- Song of Proserpine, a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, published in 1839
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