Elysium - Mythology.
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Elysium - Mythology. Greek A conception of afterlife, the pre-Hellenic paradise that the Greeks identified with their mythical Islands of the Blessed, located at the ends of the Earth--"the far west." People, or their shades, who were transported there led a blessedly happy life rather than remaining in the oblivion of the truly dead of the Underworld. Rhadamanthus and Cronus were joint rulers of this paradise. In Homer, Elysium was a place for elite heroes; in Hesiod, it was a place for the blessed dead; and from the time of Pindar, it was believed that admission to Elysium was the reward of a good life. Elysian, which means "in Elysium," still refers to paradise in the phrase "Elysian fields."
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