Background to "Arcadia"
- Created by: Beth Haworth
- Created on: 17-05-11 16:19
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What and where is Arcadia?
An area of Greece, Arcadia remained a rustic, secluded area, and its inhabitants became proverbial as primitive herdsmen leading simple, pastoral, unsophisticated yet happy lives.
How is it linked to the Garden of Eden?
Regarded a peaceful, unspoiled, harmonious wilderness.
Links to Virgil?
Virgil transforms this remote, mountainous, and myth-ridden region of Greece, homeland to the god Pan, into the original and ideal place of pastoral song, thus founding a…
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