Editing Elysium (section)

==Modern influence==
[[File:Cabinet de cire, Musée de la Révolution française.jpg|thumb|Wax cabinet with the three fathers of the French Revolution, [[Benjamin Franklin|Franklin]], [[Voltaire]] and [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau|Rousseau]], installed at Elysium, 1792, ([[Musée de la Révolution française]])]]
[[File:Schwabe Carlos Elysian Fields.jpg|thumb|right|''Elysian Fields'' by [[Carlos Schwabe]], 1903]]

The term and concept of Elysium has had influence in modern popular culture; references to Elysium can be found in literature, art, film, and music. Examples include the [[New Orleans]] neighbourhood of Elysian Fields in [[Tennessee Williams]]' ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire (play)|A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' as the déclassé purgatory where Blanche Dubois lives with Stanley and Stella Kowalski. New Orleans' Elysian Fields also provides the second-act setting of [[Elmer Rice]]'s ''[[The Adding Machine]]'' and [[Adding Machine (musical)|the musical adaptation]]. In his poem "Middlesex", [[John Betjeman]] describes how a few hedges "Keep alive our lost Elysium – rural Middlesex again". In his poem ''[[An Old Haunt]]'', [[Hugh McFadden (poet)|Hugh McFadden]] sets an Elysian scene in [[Dublin]]'s [[St. Stephen's Green]] park "Very slowly solitude slips round me in St. Stephen's Green. I rest: see pale salmon clouds blossom. I'm back in the fields of Elysium".<ref>{{cite book|last=McFadden|first=Hugh|title=Cities of Mirrors|year=1984|publisher=Beaver Row Press|location=Dublin|isbn=0-946308-08-X}}</ref> In ''[[Spring and All]]'', [[William Carlos Williams]] describes a dying woman's "elysian slobber/upon/the folded handkerchief".

The ''[[Champs-Élysées]]'' in [[Paris]] is [[French language|French]] for "Elysian Fields". The nearby [[Élysée Palace]] houses the [[President of the French Republic]], for which reason "l'Élysée" frequently appears as a [[metonym]] for the French presidency, similar to how "the White House" can metonymically refer to the American presidency, and "No.10 Downing Street" the British prime minister. ''Elysium'' and ''Elysian'' are also used for numerous other names all over the world - examples include [[Elysian Fields (Hoboken, New Jersey)|Elysian Fields, Hoboken, New Jersey]]; [[Elysian Park, Los Angeles]]; [[Elysian Valley, Los Angeles, California]]; [[Elysian, Minnesota]]; and [[Elysian Fields, Texas]].

In [[Siegfried Sassoon]]'s ''[[Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man]]'', Sassoon writes "The air was Elysian with early summer". Its use in this context could be [[Foreshadowing|prolepsis]], as the British countryside he is describing would become the burial ground of his dead comrades and heroes from [[World War I]].

Elysium is referenced in the [[Schiller]] poem which inspired [[Beethoven]]'s "[[Ode to Joy]]" ([[Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)|9th symphony]], 4th movement) - notably in the excerpt used as the [[Anthem of Europe|European Anthem]]. Elysium is also referenced in Mozart's opera ''[[Die Zauberflöte]]'' (''The Magic Flute''). It is in Act II when Papageno is feeling very melancholy because he does not have a sweetheart or wife and he is drunk singing the song "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen" (A Girl or a Wife).

The 2012 opera "[[Dolls of New Albion]]", written by [[Paul Shapera]], and its sequels, reference Elysium as an afterlife somewhat accessible to the living, though the living in Elysium are hunted by horrid creatures who guard Elysium.

===Books===
In [[David Gemmell]]'s Parmennion series (''Lion of Macedon'' and ''Dark Prince'') and his Troy trilogy, his characters refer to Elysium as the "Hall of Heroes".

In [[Masami Kurumada]]'s mythologically themed ''[[Saint Seiya]]'' comic books, the Elysium is the setting of the final chapters of the ''Hades'' arc. In it, the Saints, the warriors of [[Athena]]'s army, traverse the Underworld to defeat its ruler, the ruthless Hades and rescue their kidnapped goddess. The Saints discover that the only way to kill Hades is to destroy his true body, which has rested in Elysium since the ages of myth. The Saints then invade Elysium, which Kurumada depicts as described in Greek mythology, and carry on their mission after a difficult battle with the deity.

In the novel, ''This Ruler'', the story takes place at Elysium Hills High School. It is a reference to the mythology that surrounds American education and in particular high school. It also alludes to the teenagers, in the book, being Greek heroes.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Duff |first1=Mark |title=This Ruler |date=2019 |publisher=Mark Duff |location=USA |isbn=9780578476315}}</ref>

===Film and television===
* In ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'' and its spin-off ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'', the actual Elysian Fields appear several times as a happy afterlife, with the families of the title characters dwelling there; [[Heaven]] appears as a separate location in the same universe.
* The 2013 [[dystopia]]n film ''[[Elysium (film)|Elysium]]'', starring [[Matt Damon]], used the name Elysium to describe the orbital space station of luxury that the rich live on in contrast to the ravaged Earth that the poor live on.<ref>{{Citation|last=Blomkamp|first=Neill|title=Elysium|date=2013-08-09|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535108/|others=Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley|access-date=2017-10-28}}</ref>

===Video games===
Elysium appears in the ''Fate of Atlantis'' DLC of the 2018 video game, ''[[Assassin's Creed Odyssey]]''. In the first part of this DLC, ''The Fields of Elysium'', the misthios travels to Elysium which is ruled by members of the precursor civilisation known as the Isu which were then worshipped as the gods of the Greek pantheon.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-odyssey-goes-mythical-in-new-fate-/1100-6466324/|title=Assassin's Creed Odyssey Goes Mythical In New Fate Of Atlantis DLC|website=Gamespot|language=en|access-date=2020-10-28}}</ref>

In 2021, the video game ''[[Honkai Impact 3rd]]'' added a roguelike gameplay mode called Elysian Realm. The player follows the character of Raiden Mei as she visits the Realm, known as the underworld where the memories of the last thirteen Flame-Chasers of the Previous Era rest.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ai-chan's Newsflash 3 - New permanent activity [Elysian Realm] unfolds! |url=https://honkaiimpact3.hoyoverse.com/global/en-us/news/14596?cate= |access-date=2022-05-22 |website=honkaiimpact3.hoyoverse.com}}</ref>