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Elysium

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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)

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Hellenic religion

  • Elysium appears in Hellenic religion.

    Ovid’s Metamorphoses underworld speech seats Elysium among the blessed places neighboring Orpheus’s descent. A named Elysium in that poem, not a roman Elysium seat alone and not isles-of-the-blessed as the same claim.

    from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

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