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The Elysian Fields, also called Elysium, is the final resting place of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous in Greek mythology and religion.
Elysian Fields may also refer to:
Places
- Elysian Fields, Hoboken, New Jersey, site of the first organized baseball game
- Elysian Fields, Mississippi
- Elysian Fields, Texas
- Avenue of the Elysian Fields, Champs-Élysées, major thoroughfare in Paris
- Elysian Fields Avenue, New Orleans, a setting and a symbolic element in A Streetcar Named Desire
Art, entertainment and media
Music
Albums
- Beyond Elysian Fields (2004), an album by Hugh Cornwell (formerly the Stranglers)
Songs
- "Elysian Fields", a song by the band Megadeth, from Youthanasia
- "Elysian Fields", a song by Andy Moor and Carrie Skipper
Other music
- Elysian Fields, an American art rock band
- Elysian Fields, a music festival held the first weekend of August in Boyce, Virginia
Other art, entertainment and media
- Elysian Fields, a fictitious, nature-based, ritualistic gathering of powerful men in a secret society, portrayed in House of Cards, season 5, episode 8, similar to the Bohemian Club's meeting place, Bohemian Grove
- Elysian Fields Quarterly, a periodical
- The Man from Elysian Fields (2001), a movie starring Andy Garcia
- Elysian Fields Hotel, appeared in season 5, episode 19 of the show Supernatural
See also
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