The Elysian Fields were the Greeks own version of Heaven, but their concept of paradise might be a lot different than you would expect!

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Cover by Tom Adams. Ballantine Books paperback (1971).

Elysium - Elysian Fields - Crystalinks (The Heavenly aspect of the Underworld in Hades)

ELYSIA came from the word elysian fields which is known as the concept of afterlife, the final resting place of the souls of the heroic and the pure. So it's easy to see how the word came to mean any place or state of bliss or delight.

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The ancient Greeks had their own version of Heaven called Elysium, or the Elysian Fields. Read three descriptions of what it was supposed to be like.