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Asphodel - Greek word for daffodil
Asphodel Plantation -
Site of the Civil War "Battle of Karr's Creek"
25 miles North of Baton Rouge, LA
Location where "The Long, Hot Summer" was filmed
Asphodel Meadows - A section of the Ancient Greek underworld where indifferent and ordinary souls were sent to live after death.
Asphodel Fields - where the souls of people who lived lives of near equal good and evil rested. It essentially was a plain of Asphodel flowers which were the favorite food of the Greek dead. It is described as a ghostly place that is an even less perfect version of life on earth. (from Wiki)
From The Odyssey:
When they had passed the waters of Oceanus and the rock Leucas, they came to the gates of the sun and the land of dreams, whereon they reached the meadow of asphodel where dwell the souls and shadows of them that can labour no more.
Till they perish and they suffer--some, 'tis whisper'd--down in hell
Suffer endless anguish, others in Elysian valleys dwell,
Resting weary limbs at last on beds of asphodel.
Surely, surely, slumber is more sweet than toil, the shore
Than labour in the deep mid-ocean, wind and wave and oar;
O, rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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