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The Elysian Fields
Virgil places his Elysian Fields under the earth, and describes it as a residence of the spirits of the blessed. But in Homer, the Elysian Fields form no part of the realms of the dead. He places them on the west of the earth, near Ocean, and describeds them as a happy land, where there is neither snow, nor cold, nor rain, and always fanned by the delightful breezes of Zephyr. There favored heroes pass without dying, and live happily under the rule of Rhadamanthus. The Elysian Fields of Hesiod and Pindar are in the Isles of the Blessed, or Fortunate Islands, in the Western Ocean.
The Elysian fields were a beautiful place where great heroes went after they died. Theseus was there. Orpheus was there. And the Great Heracles was there as well. Although after he died, Heracles went to Olympus as well.
