Proserpine

English Proper noun en Roman mythology en Proserpina Roman goddess of the seasons and spring vegetation, daughter of Ceres and Jupiter; queen of the Underworld as wife of Pluto; equivalent to Greek Persephone and old Italic deity Libera. en river s/Queensland c/Australia, named for the goddess in 1859. en town in r:Suf/Whitsunday s/Queensland, founded in the 1890s, so it would have been named after the river.