Writing in the 5th century BCE, Pindar's Odes describes the reward waiting for those living a righteous life: No snow is there, nor heavy storm, nor ever rain, but ever does Ocean send up blasts of the shrill-blowing West Wind that they may give cooling to men. To the Elysian plain.where life is easiest for men. In Homer's Odyssey, Elysium is described as a paradise: 'The Isle of the Blessed' is also featured in the 2nd-century comedic novel A True Story by Lucian of Samosata. The ruler of Elysium varies from author to author: Pindar and Hesiod name Cronus as the ruler, while the poet Homer in the Odyssey describes fair-haired Rhadamanthus dwelling there. The Isles of the Blessed would be reduced to a single island by the Theban poet Pindar, describing it as having shady parks, with residents indulging in athletic and musical pastimes. In the time of the Greek poet Hesiod, Elysium would also be known as the ' Fortunate Isles', or the 'Isles (or Islands) of the Blessed', located in the western ocean at the end of the earth.

The Elysian Fields were, according to Homer, located on the western edge of the Earth by the stream of Okeanos.

They would remain at the Elysian Fields after death, to live a blessed and happy afterlife, and indulge in whatever enjoyment they had enjoyed in life. Later, the conception of who could enter was expanded to include those chosen by the gods, the righteous, and the heroic. Only mortals related to the gods and other heroes could be admitted past the river Styx. It was initially separated from the Greek underworld – the realm of Hades. ə m/, / ɪ ˈ l ɪ ʒ ə m/ ), otherwise known as the Elysian Fields ( Ancient Greek: Ἠλύσιον πεδίον, Ēlýsion pedíon) or Elysian Plains, is a conception of the afterlife that developed over time and was maintained by some Greek religious and philosophical sects and cults. Goethe's Ankunft im Elysium by Franz NadorpĮlysium ( / ɪ ˈ l ɪ z i.

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