Editing Elysium (section)

==Etymology==
The word ''Elysium'' derives via [[Latin]] from the [[Ancient Greek]] ''Ēlysion (pedion)'' "Elysian (field)", ultimately of unknown origin.<ref>{{OEtymD|Elysium}}</ref> [[Eustathius of Thessalonica]]<ref>''Commentarii ad Homerii Odisseam'', [https://archive.org/stream/commentariiadhom01eust#page/182/mode/2up IV, v. 563].</ref> [[Folk etymology|associated]] the word ''Elysion'' ({{lang|grc|Ἠλύσιον}}) with {{lang|grc|ἀλυουσας}} ''alyousas'' (itself from the verb {{lang|grc|ἀλύω}} ''alyō'', "to be deeply stirred from joy")<ref>Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. ''A Greek-English Lexicon''. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aalphabetic+letter%3D*a%3Aentry+group%3D96%3Aentry%3Da%29lu%2Fw sub voce].</ref> or from {{lang|grc|ἀλύτως}} ''alytōs'', synonymous of {{lang|grc|ἀφθάρτως}} ({{lang|grc|ἄφθαρτος}}, "incorruptible"),<ref>''A Greek-English Lexicon'' ec. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aalphabetic+letter%3D*a%3Aentry+group%3D366%3Aentry%3Da%29%2Ffqartos s. v.]</ref> referring to souls' life in this place. Another suggestion is from the stem {{lang|grc|ελυθ-}} ''elyth-'', itself from {{lang|grc|ἔρχομαι}} ("to come").<ref>''Storia vera. Dialoghi dei morti'', [[Lucian]], [[Oscar Mondadori]], Milano, 1991 (2010), p. 79.</ref>