Arcadia

Arcadia or Arcady, an isolated mountainous region of Greece in the central Peloponnese, famed in the ancient world for its sheep and as the home of the god Pan. It was imagined by Virgil in his Eclogues (42–37 BC), and by later writers of pastorals in the Renaissance, as an ideal world of rural simplicity and tranquillity. The adjective Arcadian can be applied to any such imagined pastoral setting. See also idyll.

Mountainous district in the Peloponnese of S Greece. In poetic fantasy it represents a pastoral paradise and in Greek mythology it is the home of Pan.

Arcadian adj.