place
the Islands of the Blessed
also: beatorum insulis, insulae fortunatorum, the islands of the blessed
In Greek mythology the paradisal islands at the world's edge where the blessed dead or the heroes dwell. In De Finibus 5.53 Cicero notes that the old philosophers imagined the life of the wise there as spent wholly in inquiry and learning.
Reading notes
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §5.53 in the islands of the blessed
The Islands of the Blessed were the mythical paradise at the world's edge reserved for the favoured dead. Cicero says the old philosophers imagined the wise spending eternity there in study.