In the Greek historian Plutarch's Life of Sertorius, Elysium is described as: With these wreaths and garlands of flowers they entwine their hands according to the righteous counsels of Rhadamanthys, whom the great father, the husband of Rhea whose throne is above all others, keeps close beside him as his partner Those who have persevered three times, on either side, to keep their souls free from all wrongdoing, follow Zeus' road to the end, to the tower of Cronus, where ocean breezes blow around the island of the blessed, and flowers of gold are blazing, some from splendid trees on land, while water nurtures others. But in the presence of the honored gods, those who gladly kept their oaths enjoy a life without tears, while the others undergo a toil that is unbearable to look at. The good receive a life free from toil, not scraping with the strength of their arms the earth, nor the water of the sea, for the sake of a poor sustenance. 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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