You must go to the house of Hades and of dread Proserpine to consult the ghost of the blind Theban prophet Teiresias, whose reason is still unshaken.
When your ship has traversed the waters of Oceanus, you will reach the fertile shore of Proserpine's country with its groves of tall poplars and willows that shed their fruit untimely; here beach your ship upon the shore of Oceanus, and go straight on to the dark abode of Hades.
On this, many dead men's ghosts will come to you, and you must tell your men to skin the two sheep that you have just killed, and offer them as a burnt sacrifice with prayers to Hades and to Proserpine. Then draw your sword and sit there, so as to prevent any other poor ghost from coming near the split blood before Teiresias shall have answered your questions.
"When I had got the men together I said to them, 'You think you are about to start home again, but Circe has explained to me that instead of this, we have got to go to the house of Hades and Proserpine to consult the ghost of the Theban prophet Teiresias.'
He prayed that no son of mine might ever sit upon knees--and the gods, Jove of the world below and awful Proserpine, fulfilled his curse.
His mother, grieving for the death of her brother, prayed the gods, and beat the earth with her hands, calling upon Hades and on awful Proserpine; she went down upon her knees and her bosom was wet with tears as she prayed that they would kill her son--and Erinys that walks in darkness and knows no ruth heard her from Erebus.
The score was prepared and edited by Jeremy Dibble, who did the same for the miniature ballet
Proserpine (1912) - with the ladies of the BBC National Chorus of Wales - and Three Movements from Suite Moderne (1892), enjoyable lighter works.
A month earlier at Sotheby's London, the allegorical chalk drawing
Proserpine of 1880, again of Jane Morris, with Rossetti's own sonnet on the reverse, fetched 3.27m [pounds sterling].
by Agence France-Presse Australian senator Pauline Hanson laughs as she has a photograph taken with local resident Brodie Tophan in the main street of the northern Australian town of
Proserpine in Queensland, Australia, on November 9, 2017.
Palaszczuk will have spent the first three days of her campaign in the all-important battleground of north Queensland, from Airlie Beach and
Proserpine to Townsville and Cairns.
Proserpine - goddess of the underworld; counterpart of Greek Persephone