god
Proserpina
also: Proserpina
Queen of the underworld; 'imperious Proserpina drags me off' is Tiresias's parting line as the vision ends.
Reading notes
- The Odes §1.28 Proserpina
Queen of the dead, who 'passes no head by'; death spares none.
- The Odes §2.13 Proserpina
Queen of the underworld, whose 'realms of dusky Proserpina' Horace nearly saw.
- The Epodes §17 Proserpina
Queen of the underworld, invoked by the suppliant poet among the powers of darkness Canidia commands.
- The Satires §2.5 Proserpina drags
Queen of the underworld; her summons ends Tiresias's vision with the curt 'live, and farewell.'