Ἠλύσιον

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concept in ancient Greek religion location in Greek mythology mythological afterlife realm

Ἠλύσιον is the Ancient Greek term for Elysium, the blissful afterlife realm reserved for heroes and the virtuous in Greek mythology.

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Label	Occurrences
Ἠλύσιον canonical	1
Ἠλύσιον (Elysion)	1

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	concept in ancient Greek religion ⓘ location in Greek mythology ⓘ mythological afterlife realm ⓘ
afterlifeFor	mortals favored by the gods ⓘ righteous souls ⓘ
associatedWithDeity	Cronus ⓘ Hades ⓘ Persephone ⓘ Zeus ⓘ
conceptualOrigin	hero cults in ancient Greece ⓘ
contrastedWith	Asphodel Meadows ⓘ Tartarus ⓘ surface form: Tartarus (place of punishment)
culture	Ancient Greek religion ⓘ
describedAs	blissful afterlife realm for heroes and the virtuous ⓘ
eschatologicalRole	final destination of blessed souls ⓘ
hasEnvironment	abundant light ⓘ gentle breezes ⓘ meadows ⓘ perpetual spring ⓘ
hasQuality	blissful ⓘ paradisiacal ⓘ reserved for the righteous ⓘ
hasSymbolicMeaning	divine favor after death ⓘ reward for virtue ⓘ
influenced	later concepts of paradise in Western thought ⓘ
inhabitantClass	demigods ⓘ heroes ⓘ the virtuous ⓘ
label	Elysian Fields ⓘ Elysium ⓘ Ἠλύσιον ⓘ
languageOfName	Ancient Greek ⓘ
mentionedIn	Homeric poetry ⓘ later Greek and Roman literature ⓘ works of Pindar ⓘ
mythology	Greek mythology ⓘ
nativeLabel	Ἠλύσιον ⓘ
opposedTo	Hades ⓘ surface form: Hades (general realm of the dead) Tartarus ⓘ
partOf	Greek underworld ⓘ
relatedConcept	Fields of Asphodel ⓘ Isle of the Blessed ⓘ surface form: Isles of the Blessed Tartarus ⓘ
roleInBeliefSystem	ultimate reward for exemplary lives ⓘ
timePeriodOfBelief	Archaic Greece ⓘ Classical Greece ⓘ Hellenistic period ⓘ

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Elysium → AncientGreekName → Ἠλύσιον ⓘ

Ἠλύσια πεδία → etymologyRelatedTo → Ἠλύσιον ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ἠλύσιον (Elysion)