It really depends on Elysium. In general, it didn't seem to be a widely held belief. (Again, Homer just dumps everyone in the same place.) So assuming that some people get it and some don't is sort of goofy, as most people didn't seem to believe in it to begin with.
Some religions/cults promised Elysium equivalents to their followers. But in general, the idea seemed to be that you vanished into some sort of nebulous cloud after death. It was not a good thing. Again, mileage varied by time period/where you where/what gods, cults, etc. you chose to follow.
I don't really mean to imply that anyone would state that they're the same. But I do remember thinking, when I first started studying Greek myth, that there was some kind of "canon". There really wasn't. Some people would get really into the cult of, say, Dionysius, and others would be initiated in the Elysium mysteries, and others didn't care much about religion at all and probably just gave their sacrifices to Zeus. And what they all believed was really, really different. Even the "classic" stories, like Homer and Hesiod vary a lot. When you start throwing in guys like the Orphics, it gets really, really complicated. There's no real modern analog. It would be like if some people claimed that Jesus was the son of Mary and God, while others were like "who is this Mary? We're pretty convinced that the mother of Jesus was named Bridget, and she lived in Italy".
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Some religions/cults promised Elysium equivalents to their followers. But in general, the idea seemed to be that you vanished into some sort of nebulous cloud after death. It was not a good thing. Again, mileage varied by time period/where you where/what gods, cults, etc. you chose to follow.
I don't really mean to imply that anyone would state that they're the same. But I do remember thinking, when I first started studying Greek myth, that there was some kind of "canon". There really wasn't. Some people would get really into the cult of, say, Dionysius, and others would be initiated in the Elysium mysteries, and others didn't care much about religion at all and probably just gave their sacrifices to Zeus. And what they all believed was really, really different. Even the "classic" stories, like Homer and Hesiod vary a lot. When you start throwing in guys like the Orphics, it gets really, really complicated. There's no real modern analog. It would be like if some people claimed that Jesus was the son of Mary and God, while others were like "who is this Mary? We're pretty convinced that the mother of Jesus was named Bridget, and she lived in Italy".