The Fortunate Isles or Isles of the Blessed (Ancient Greek: μακάρων νῆσοι, makarōn nēsoi) were semi-legendary islands in the Atlantic Ocean, variously...

known as the "Fortunate Isles", or the "Isles (or Islands) of the Blessed", located in the western ocean at the end of the earth. The Isles of the Blessed...

spellings. By comparison, Isidore's description of the Fortunate Isles reads: "The Fortunate Isles (Fortunatarum insulae) signify by their name that they...

The Fortunate Isles and Their Union is a Jacobean era masque, written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, and performed on 9 January 1625. It was...

Thanatos Zagreus Geography Acheron Asphodel Meadows Cocytus Elysium Fortunate Isles Land of dreams Lethe Phlegethon Styx Tartarus Prisoners Arke Danaïdes...

Thanatos Zagreus Geography Acheron Asphodel Meadows Cocytus Elysium Fortunate Isles Land of dreams Lethe Phlegethon Styx Tartarus Prisoners Arke Danaïdes...

Pleiades. Together with his brother Eurypylus, they ruled over the Isles of the Fortunate which their father blessed. Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica...

Hesiod's time, the Elysium would also be known as the Fortunate Isles or the Isles of the Blessed. The isles, which were sometimes treated as a geographical...

– in many respects, an Etruscan equivalent to Charon Coins for the dead Isle of the Dead – a painting by Swiss Symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin Manannán...

grounds where the dead lived after judgment. For the Celts, it was the Fortunate Isle of Mag Mell. For the classical Greeks, the Elysian fields was a paradisiacal...