place

Elysium

Places · Myth & story

A blessed field or island of Greek afterlife speech. Not Hades, not Tartarus, and not a later paradise slogan.

Also known as Elysian Fields

Roman religion

  • Elysium appears in Roman religion.

    Virgil’s Aeneid places Elysium among the Blessed Fields Aeneas reaches in the Roman epic underworld. A named pleasant below in that poem, not Hades, not Tartarus, and not Valhalla.

    from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Aeneid · Virgil

    Virgil, Aeneid.