a place of complete happiness. According to ancient Greek stories, Elysium is the place where good people go after their death. = paradise. or Elysian Fields Ancient Greek paradise reserved for heroes to whom the gods had granted immortality. Homer described it as a land of perfect happiness at the end of the earth, on the banks of the Oceanus River. From the time of Pindar ( 500 BC) on, Elysium was imagined as a dwelling place for those who had lived a righteous life
A dwelling place assigned to happy souls after death; the seat of future happiness; Paradise
"An imaginary delightful country which the ancients foolishly believed to be inhabited by the spirits of the good This ridiculous and mischievous fable was swept off the face of the earth by the early Christians -- may their souls be happy in heaven!" [DD]
(Greek mythology) the abode of the blessed after death a place or condition of ideal happiness
(from Greek mythology) Elysian Fields; the dwelling place of all noble and, virtuous persons after they have departed from this earth It is a place where the inhabitants are presumed to enjoy eternal bliss, the highest kind of happiness