Elysian Fields
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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.
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
- "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.