Elysian Fields
The Elysian Fields, also called Elysium, are the final resting place of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous in Greek mythology and religion.
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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
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
- "Elysian Fields", a song by Suicideboys
- "Elysian Fields", a song by God Is An Astronaut from the album A Moment of Stillness
- "The Garden of Elysian", a song by Local Natives from the album Violet Street
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, the destination of Blanche Dubois in the 1947 play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
- Elysian Fields, a fictitious secret society in the television series House of Cards
- Elysian Fields Quarterly, a periodical
- The Man from Elysian Fields (2001), a movie starring Andy Garcia
- The House That Jack Built (2018), a movie starring Matt Dillon
- Elysium (film), a 2013 movie starring Matt Damon.
- Elysian Fields is the name of a nightclub/roadhouse at the end of a pier in the Mississippi delta, in the film Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012).
- In the 2011 video game L.A. Noire, Elysian Fields is the name of a development company which plays a major role in the plot of the game.
- In Grand Theft Auto V the highway between Route 22 and the port of Los Santos
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