place

Asphodel Meadows

Places

The ordinary dead’s plain in Greek underworld speech. Not Elysium as the blessed field, and not Tartarus as the deep pit.

Also known as Asphodel Fields

Hellenic religion

  • Asphodel Meadows appears in Hellenic religion.

    Ovid’s Metamorphoses underworld speech seats the asphodel meadows among the places of the ordinary dead Orpheus’s path skirts. A named asphodel-meadows place in that poem, not asphodel the plant alone and not Elysium as the blessed seat.

    from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

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