Elysium

Stories tagged Elysium:

• Hades and the Underworld Jul 29, 2025

  

  Hades and the Underworld

  When the ancient Greeks contemplated death, they did not imagine a heavenly paradise or fiery hell as later religions would. Instead, they envisioned a shadowy, neutral realm beneath the earth—a place where the spirits of the dead would continue a diminished version of existence, neither in torment nor in joy, but simply… persisting.