These are two in number, separated by a very narrow strait they are ten thousand furlongs distant from Africa, and are called the Islands of the Blest. In the Greek historian Plutarch's Life of Sertorius, Elysium is described as: "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 life, and indulge in whatever employment 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.
It was initially separated from the Greek underworld and realm of Hades, and only mortals related to the gods and other heroes could be admitted here. Goethe's Ankunft im Elysium by Franz NadorpĮlysium or the Elysian Fields ( Ancient Greek: Ἠλύσιον πεδίον, Ēlýsion pedíon) is a conception of the afterlife that developed over time and was maintained by some Greek religious and philosophical sects and cults.
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