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Proserpina

Roman · deity · primordial · deity

Roman queen of the underworld, daughter of Ceres; counterpart of Persephone.

Parentage

Domains

underworld queenship

Powers

Divides the year between earth and the underworld

Epithets

Proserpina Regina

Sources

Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.391-571

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