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

Proteus informed Menelaus that he would be conveyed to the Islands of the Blessed, because he was the husband of Helen, and the son-in-law of Jupiter.

From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 11, November, 1880 by Walker, Aaron

I could send you a Note on a cognate subject, but I fear it would occupy too much of your space,—that of Happy Isles, or Islands of the Blessed.

From Notes and Queries, Number 182, April 23, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

Islands of the Blessed, fabled islands of the far west of the ocean, where the favoured of the gods after death are conceived to dwell in everlasting blessedness.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin