Islands of the Blessed
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islands of the blessed
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Helen
The blessed afterlife dwelling place decreed for Menelaos.
And it is destined by the gods that the wanderer Menelaos will dwell in the islands of the blessed;
Works and Days
A blessed otherworldly location along the shore of Ocean where the surviving heroes of the fourth generation dwell in ease under Cronos's rule.
And they live untouched by sorrow in the islands of the blessed along the shore of deep-swirling Ocean, happy heroes for whom the grain-giving earth bears honey-sweet fruit flourishing thrice a year, far from the deathless gods, and Cronos rules over them;