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ElysiumIn Greek mythology, an afterworld or paradise, originally identified with the Islands of the Blessed, for those who found favour with the gods. Later poets depicted Elysium as a region in Hades, the underworld. It was ruled over by Rhadamanthys, a judge of the dead. According to Homer in the 8th century BC, Elysium lay in the far west on the banks of Oceanus (the river believed to encircle the Earth); favoured heroes were carried there alive and endowed with immortality. In Hesiod's era, around 700 BC, it had become a place for the blessed dead, and by the time of Pindar, 552-442 BC, admission could only be achieved through a good life. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| "Pulled it off," said Chunk with Elysium in his grin. In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faery lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. I go to Liberia, not as an Elysium of romance, but as to a field of work. |
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