a picturesque plateau region in Greece, reputed to be the home of pastoral poetry and commemorated by pastoral poets as an ideal landscape of peace and contentment, peopled by philosopher-shepherds
A mountainous area of Greece In Greek and Roman literature, a place where a contented life of rural simplicity is lived; an earthly paradise peopled by shepherds
A region or scene characterized by idyllic quiet and simplicity, often chosen as a setting for pastoral poetry, from Arcadia, a picturesque region in ancient Greece (See also Bucolic, Eclogue, Idyll, Madrigal)
The word entered English from the Greek arkadia and refers to a region whose inhabitants lived a pastoral life of idealized, simple pleasures How appropriate for a group of nursing centers named Arcadia
A mountainous and picturesque district of Greece, in the heart of the Peloponnesus, whose people were distinguished for contentment and rural happiness