Elysium
Greek heroic heaven
Elysium is the paradise of Greek mythology where heroes and the righteous spent eternity in perfect happiness.
The Elysian Fields were imagined as sunlit meadows free from labor and suffering.
The name has been adopted for various places, neighborhoods, and creative works evoking paradise or utopia: the 2013 science fiction film Elysium. (Lowercase elysium refers to any blissful state or place.)
Hades
Greek afterlife realm
- OlympusSacred Greek mountain
- underworldRealm of the departed
- TartarusDeepest realm of punishment
Styx · Charon · afterlife · Acheron · Lethe · Erebus · Persephone · Hermes · shades · souls
empyrean
Celestial sphere above
ethereal · Zion · celestial · transcendent · sacred · exalted · luminous · supernal · godly · holy
- 2013 FilmsGravity, American Hustle, Dallas Buyers Club, Captain Phillips, Nebraska
- Greek & RomanAchilles heel, Trojan horse, Pandora's box, Midas touch, Odyssey
- Greek mythologyZeus, Athena, Apollo, Hera, Poseidon
- Mythological WordsAchilles heel, Adonis, aegis, ambrosia, Apollo
- mythologyZeus, Apollo, Athena, Poseidon, Odin
- volcanicslava, magma, volcanoes, eruptions, lava flows
ideal vs. terrible society/place
Elysiumdystopia
Imaginary terrible society
anti-utopia · hellscape · hellhole · living hell · wasteland
- Elysian FieldsGreek paradise for souls