Proserpine
Proserpina or Proserpine was the Roman goddess of springtime and wife of Pluto. It may also refer to:
In art
- Proserpine (Lully), a 1680 opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully
- Proserpine (play), an 1820 play by Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Song of Proserpine, a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, published in 1839
- The Garden of Proserpine, a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne, published in 1866
- Proserpine (Rossetti painting), a painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (c.1868)
- Prosperpina, a character in Larry Niven's Ringworld's Children (2004)
Other
- 26 Proserpina, an asteroid discovered in 1853
- Proserpina (gastropod), genus of land snails in the family Proserpinidae
- Proserpina, an 1879 book by John Ruskin about wayside flowers
- Proserpine, Queensland, a town in Queensland, Australia
- Proserpine / Whitsunday Coast Airport, an airport in the town of Prosperine, Queensland
- French ship Proserpine, any one of several ships of the French Navy
- 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
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