A beautiful meadow in Homer where the favored of Zeus enjoy perfect happiness. By the time of Vergil, the Elysian Fields had been located in the Underworld as the home of the dead who were judged worthy. In the Aeneid, those blessed dead compose poetry, sing, dance, and tend to their chariots. Aeneas talks to Anchises in the Elysian Fields in Book VI of the Aeneid.

See also:

Aeneid and Vergil feature
Hades' Realm in the Aeneid

Aeneas Book VI Glossary Entries

Aeneas
Anchises
Cerberus
Charon
Deiphobus
Dido
Elysium/Elysian Fields
Furies
Hercules
Jupiter
Lethe
Misenus
Palinurus
Priam
Proserpine
Rhadamanthus
Sibyl
Sisyphus
Vergil

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