In Greek mythology, Elysium (Greek: ) was a section of the Underworld (the spelling Elysium is a Latinization of the Greek word Elysion). The Elysian fields, or sometimes Elysian plains, were the final resting place of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous. It is associated with the Christian Heaven.EtymologyElysium is an obscure and mysterious name that evolved from a designation of a place or person struck by lightning, enelysion, enelysios.Burkert 1985 p. 198. Scholars have also s