The goddess
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's painting 'Proserpine' depicts the Roman goddess Proserpina (equivalent to the Greek Persephone) as the queen of the Underworld. It portrays her in a gloomy corridor of her palace, holding a pomegranate - the fateful fruit that bound her to the realm of Pluto after she ate its …
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