Elysian Fields {i-lizh'-uhn}. In Greek mythology Elysium, also known as Elysian Fields or the Isles of the Blessed, was the dwelling place after  death of virtuous mortals or those given immortality by divine favor. The poets Homer, Hesiod, and Pindar variously  describe this happy land as being on the banks of the river  Oceanus at the edge of the Earth. In Vergil, Elysium was  part of HADES.

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