Islands of the Blest
place · 3 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Oasis · city of Oasis · the Islands of the Blest · the islands of the blest
spoken of as
1 expressionOasis“"Islands of the Blest"”1 mention
The Histories (Greek)
Thus far, it is said, the army came;
in the texts
Republic
A mythic paradise for the blessed dead, invoked to describe philosophers who wrongly believe themselves already beyond worldly duty
“Well, then,” said I, “is not this also likely and a necessary consequence of what has been said, that neither could men who are uneducated and inexperienced in truth ever adequately preside over a state, nor could those who had been permitted to linger on to the end in the pursuit of culture—the one because they have no single aim and purpose in life to which all their actions, public and private …
and so, when each generation has educated others like themselves to take their place as guardians of the state, they shall depart to the Islands of the Blest and there dwell.
The Funeral Speech
The mythical abode of the blessed dead, where these fallen men are said to be seated beside the gods below alongside earlier brave men.
With excellent reason one might declare them to be now seated beside the gods below, possessing the same rank as the brave men who have preceded them in the islands of the blest.
The Histories
Samian-inhabited desert city seven days from Thebes, the last known point reached by the army sent against the Ammonians.
Thus far, it is said, the army came;
and it is known that they came to the city of Oasis, inhabited by Samians said to be of the Aeschrionian tribe, seven days' march from Thebes across sandy desert;
when the Persians were crossing the sand from Oasis to attack them, and were about midway between their country and Oasis, while they were breakfasting a great and violent south wind arose, which buried them in the masses of sand which it bore;