like the Greeks before them, envisioned a complex afterlife, where the righteous could find solace in the Isles of the Blessed, an ethereal paradise. This mirrored the GreekElysium, yet was distinctly
Met. x. 728), and the nymph Leuce, with whom he was likewise in love, was changed by him after her death into a white poplar, and transferred to Elysium. (Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. vii. 61.) Being the king of the lower world, Pluton is the giver of all the blessings that come ...
Sequencing was performed by Macrogen (Madrid, Spain) and the electropherograms manually checked/assembled using Chromas Pro 1.41 (Technelysium, Southport, QLD, Australia). Similarity searches have been performed using the algorithm BLASTn limiting the search between the sequences coming from type ...