The asphodel is mentioned by several poets in connection with the mythology of death, and by association, the afterlife - specifically the Isles of the Blessed and Elysium - part of the ancient Greek concept of the afterlife.
Elysium, a section of the underworld containing the Elysian Fields
An American from New Orleans, Capt. Edward Smith, visited the village in 1817 and compared its beauty to the Elysian Fields of Greek Mythology.
He died before 1607, when Dekker in his Knight's Conjurer described him joining the poets in Elysium: "in comes Chettle sweating and blowing by reason of his fatness".
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Achim Moeller serves on the advisory boards of the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), New York, and Elysium Between Two Continents, New York.
# That it was the true Antediluvian world; the Garden of Eden; the Gardens of Hesperides; the Elysian Fields; the Gardens of Alcinous; the Mesomphalos, the Olympos; the Asgard of the traditions of the ancient nations; representing a universal memory of a great land, where early mankind dwelt for ages in peace and happiness.
The restless goddess Joramy maintains no fixed realm, but wanders the planes of Bytopia and Elysium.
Among his famous works are paintings and etchings of Klopstock in Elysium, Orestes and Electra, Socrates and Theramenes as well as Emperor Francis I of Austria.
In the 2013 science fiction film Elysium, the protagonist (played by Matt Damon) takes Miporol, a fictional brand name for diphenylhydantoin, after having been exposed to a lethal dose of radiation.
Remnis lives in the realm of Goldenroost on the plane of the Beastlands, but he travels between the Elemental Plane of Air, the Outlands, Mechanus, Limbo, Elysium, and Arborea.