place

Isles of the Blessed

Places

Far western isles of the favored dead in Greek speech. Not Elysium as a field alone, and not Avalon.

Also known as Fortunate Isles · Makaron Nesoi

Hellenic religion

  • Isles of the Blessed appears in Hellenic religion.

    Ovid’s Metamorphoses underworld and afterlife speech seats the Isles of the Blessed among the resting places of the favored dead. A named Isles of the Blessed in that poem, not Elysium as the same claim and not every paradise dump.

    from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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