Islands of the Blessed

American  

plural noun

Classical Mythology.

1. islands in the ocean at the remotest western end of the world, to which the souls of heroes and worthy persons were said to be transported after death.

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Islands of the Blessed British  

plural noun

1. Also called: Hesperides.  Greek myth lands where the souls of heroes and good men were taken after death

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Example Sentences

Actually, Ialu was a forerunner of the Greek Islands of the Blessed.

From Time Magazine Archive

And these, when they are dead, shall give judgment in the meadow at the parting of the ways, whence the two roads lead, one to the Islands of the Blessed, and the other to Tartarus.

From Gorgias by Jowett, Benjamin

For her soul upon its journey To the Islands of the Blessed.

From The Canadian Elocutionist by Howard, Anna Kelsey

The Greeks placed Paradise in the Islands of the Blessed, beyond the Pillars of Hercules in the western main.

From Bible Romances First Series by Foote, G. W. (George William)

Thus prepared, no wonder my eager little friend plunged headlong into the sea of doubts, impatient to cry, "Eureka!" and plant his foot upon the Islands of the Blessed.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various