what is elysium is it heaven?

Question

where can i find references to elysium?

Answer 1

Greek mythology - one of the levels of the underworld for the heroic.

Answer 2

In Greek mythology, Elysium (Greek: Ἠλύσια πεδία) was a section of the Underworld (the spelling Elysium is a Latinization of the Greek word Elysion). Elysium is an obscure and mysterious name that evolved from a designation of a place or person struck by lightning, enelysion, enelysios.[1] Alternately, scholars have also suggested that Greek Elysion may instead derive from the Egyptian term ialu (older iaru), meaning "reeds," with specific reference to the "Reed fields" (Egyptian: sekhet iaru / ialu), a paradisiacal land of plenty where the dead hoped to spend eternity.

Answer 3

NO!

It is a basis for heaven.

The Elysium Fields (Champs Elysee, like the street in Paris) was the happy afterlife of the greeks.
The Asphedel Meadows for the mediocre.
And Tartarus for the wicked.

Heaven, in the sense of where the greek gods lives was Olympus. And only a few mortals, like Hercules ever got to go there.

A very different construct from the Christian Heaven.

The Elysium Fields were also designed to destract the souls from the fact they were dead. It was a place of abudance, but not spiritual fullfilment

Answer 4

Try here for Greek Mythology. The Elysium Fields ar mentioned, and could be interpereted as heaven for hero's.

http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/IslesBlest.html

Answer 5

Very close. It is a part of the underworld, in Greek mythology, that is akin to our modern idea of heaven, where many noble warriors rest, in particular. It is commonly known as 'The Fields of Elysium'. It's hell-like counterpart is known as Tarturus. You will find reference to both of these in most Classical Greek and Roman literature, but namely Virgil's Aeneid and Homer's Odyssey. Enjoy!

Answer 6

Elysium was a pagan expression that passed into the usage of the Christian patristic writers as a synonym for paradise.

Some confuse Dante's idea of the Elysian Fields with Limbo—he described Limbo as the very upper level of hell, a place of peace that the unbaptized and the non-believers who lived virtuous lives go. It is a place of happiness, but it is closed off from God and thus remains as hell.

In the Renaissance, the heroic population of the Elysian Fields tended to outshine its formerly dreary pagan reputation; the Elysian Fields borrowed some of the bright allure of paradise. In Paris, the Champs-Élysées retain their name of the Elysian Fields, first applied in the late 16th century to a formerly rural outlier beyond the formal parterre gardens behind the royal French palace of the Tuileries.

After the Renaissance, as images of Valhalla entered the popular European imagination, an even cheerier Elysium evolved for some poets. Sometimes it is imagined as a place where heroes have continued their interests from their lives. Others suppose it is a location filled with feasting, sport, song; Joy is the "daughter of Elysium" in Friedrich Schiller's ode "To Joy".

When in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night shipwrecked Viola is told "This is Illyria, lady.", "And what should I do in Illyria? My brother he is in Elysium." is her answer: "Elysium" for her and her first Elizabethan hearers simply means Paradise. Similarly, in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute, Elysium is mentioned in Act II during Papageno's solo while he describes what it would be like if he had his dream girl: "Des Lebens als Weiser mich freun, Und wie im Elysium sein." ("Enjoy life as a wiseman, And feel like I'm in Elysium.")

The New Orleans neighborhood of the Elysian Fields in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire is ironically the declassé purgatory where Blanche Dubois lives with Stanley and Stella Kowalski. New Orleans' Elysian Fields provide the second act setting of Elmer Rice's The Adding Machine.

In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, the Elysian Undying Lands, the home of the gods, elves, and a select few others, can only be reached by crossing the western sea, much as one would have to cross the stream of Oceanus to reach the Fortunate Isles.

In Greek mythology, Elysium (Greek: Ἠλύσια πεδία) was a section of the Underworld (the spelling Elysium is a Latinization of the Greek word Elysion). Elysium is an obscure and mysterious name that evolved from a designation of a place or person struck by lightning, enelysion, enelysios.[1] Alternately, scholars have also suggested that Greek Elysion may instead derive from the Egyptian term ialu (older iaru), meaning "reeds," with specific reference to the "Reed fields" (Egyptian: sekhet iaru / ialu), a paradisiacal land of plenty where the dead hoped to spend eternity

Answer 7

Heaven isn't boring, it's going to be the suitable outstanding and exciting place you have ever been too or ever will. do now not choose for extra beneficial via way of actuality the dominion of Heaven is the suitable appropriate place ever, the situation you have gotten eternal life and peace.

Answer 8

It is a place or condition of ideal happiness also it was the the abode of the blessed after death in the greek mithology

Answer 9

Try 'A StreetCar Named Desire' - a play by Tennessee Williams. Lots of references. Read & you'll see.

Answer 10

here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium