asphodel
Greek underworld flower
Asphodel is a plant of the lily family with long slender leaves and white or yellow flowers.
In Greek mythology, asphodels covered the meadows of Hades where ordinary souls wandered after death—neither blessed nor damned.
The word persists mainly in literary contexts evoking the classical underworld: fields of asphodel, asphodel meadows.
Flower or flourishing state
- petalBloom's colorful segment
- bulbousSwollen and round
- herbaceousHaving soft green stems
- perennialRecurring each year
lily · stalk · pale · white · yellow · Mediterranean · narcissus · rhizome
Greek afterlife for heroes
- HadesGreek afterlife realm
- UnderworldRealm of the dead
- PersephoneGreek underworld queen
- meadowGrassy field for grazing
afterlife · Charon · Styx · Acheron · Lethe · Orpheus · chthonic · Homeric
bloom
Flower or flourishing state
- petalBloom's colorful segment
- bulbousSwollen and round
- herbaceousHaving soft green stems
perennial · lily · stalk · pale · white · yellow · Mediterranean · narcissus · rhizome · cluster
Elysium
Greek afterlife for heroes
- HadesGreek afterlife realm
- UnderworldRealm of the dead
- PersephoneGreek underworld queen
meadow · afterlife · Charon · Styx · Acheron · Lethe · Orpheus · chthonic · Homeric · Homer
grief
Intense sorrow from loss
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
- funeralService honoring the dead
cemetery · grave · commemoration · sorrow · loss · tribute · wreath · offering · departed · ancestor
elegy
Poem lamenting the departed
ode · lyric · symbolism · allusion · Keats · Tennyson · Victorian · melancholy · pastoral · evocation
asphodelamaranth
Edible-seeded flowering plant
lotus · Tree of Life · golden apples · ambrosia · moly