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Locations in Greek Underworld: Rivers of Hades, Tartarus, Styx, Elysium, Lethe, Mnemosyne, Acheron, Erebus, Phlegethon, Cocytus, Eridanos Review

Locations in Greek Underworld: Rivers of Hades, Tartarus, Styx, Elysium, Lethe, Mnemosyne, Acheron, Erebus, Phlegethon, Cocytus, Eridanos Overview

Chapters: Rivers of Hades, Tartarus, Styx, Elysium, Lethe, Mnemosyne, Acheron, Erebus, Phlegethon, Cocytus, Eridanos, Asphodel Meadows. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 53. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: In Greek mythology, Elysium (Greek: ) was a section of the Underworld (the spelling Elysium is a Latinization of the Greek word Elysion). The Elysian Fields, or the Elysian Plains, were the final resting places of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous. Elysium is an obscure name that evolved from a designation of a place or person struck by lightning, enelysion, enelysios. This could be a reference to Zeus, the god of lightning/Jupiter, so "lightning-struck" could be saying that the person was blessed (struck) by Zeus (/lightning/fortune). Egyptologist Jan Assmann has also suggested that Greek Elysion may have instead been derived from the Egyptian term ialu (older iaru), meaning "reeds," with specific reference to the "Reed fields" (Egyptian: sekhet iaru / ialu), a paradisaical land of plenty where the dead hoped to spend eternity. The ruler of Elysium varies from author to author; Pindar names the ruler as Kronos, released from Tartarus and ruling in a palace: Other authors claim that Kronos remained in Tartarus for all eternity, and the judge was another, sometimes Rhadamanthys. Two Homeric passages in particular established for Greeks the nature of the Afterlife: the dreamed apparition of the dead Patroclus in the Iliad and the more daring boundary-breaking visit in Book 11 of the Odyssey. Greek traditions concerning funerary ritual were reticent, but the Homeric examples encouraged other heroic visits, in the myth cycles centered around Theseus and Heracles. The Elysian Fields lay on the western margin of the earth, by the encircling stream of Oceanus, and there the mortal...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=65131


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