Arcadia or
Arcady is 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 BCE), 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.