Hades, Tartaros, Elysion (page 135 upper)

Chapter 3: Olympos, the Underworld, and Minor Divinities

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Euripides, Andromache 1259-62

From there, walking dry-shod out of the deep you will see your beloved son and mine, Achilles, dwelling in his island home on the strand of Leuke in the Sea Inhospitable.  Greek Text

Aischylos fr 350 R – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta 3, pp. 416-18, ed. S. L. Radt. Göttingen 1985.

Pausanias 3.19.13

In time he was healed and returned from White Island, where, he used to declare, he saw Achilles, as well as Ajax the son of Oileus and Ajax the son of Telamon. With them, he said, were Patroclus and Antilochus; Helen was wedded to Achilles, and had bidden him sail to Stesichorus at Himera, and announce that the loss of his sight was caused by her wrath.  Greek Text

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