Arcadia

Arcadia or Arkadía (Greek Αρκαδία; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a region of Greece in the Peloponnesus. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas. Arcadia - Modern Arcadia. Arcadia has its present-day capital at Tripoli. It forms the largest prefecture on the Peloponnesian peninsula. It currently covers about 18% of the entire peninsula, although it once extended to about 20 to 25% of the peninsula. The prefecture has a skiing resort on ...

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Arcadia has its present-day capital at Tripoli. It forms the largest prefecture on the Peloponnesian peninsula. It currently covers about 18% of the entire peninsula, although it once extended to about 20 to 25% of the peninsula. The prefecture has a skiing resort on Mount Maenalus, the Mainalon, located about 20 km NW of Tripoli. The other mountains include the Parnon in the southeast, the Artemisio, the Sai ...

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Arcadia is located at 27°13′3″N, 81°51′36″W (27.217585, -81.859917).GR1 According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 10.5 km² (4.0 mi²). 10.5 km² (4.0 mi²) of it is land and 0.25% is water. ...

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Utopianism refers to the many various social and political movements, and a significant body of religious and secular literature, based upon the idea of paradise on earth. See Utopia. Utopianism - Various conceptions of past and future paradise. In many cultures and societies, there is some myth or memory of a distant past when humankind lived in a primitive and simple state, but at the same time one of perfect happiness and fulfillment. In those days, the various myths tell us, there was an instinctive har ...

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Utopianism - Krita Yuga Utopianism - Golden Age Utopianism - Arcadia Utopianism - The Bibilical Garden of Eden Utopianism - The Land of Cokaygne
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For the genealogist George Edward Cokayne, see Cokayne's Complete Peerage Cockaigne was a medieval land, a mythical land of plenty, where all the harshness of medieval peasant life did not exist. Cockaigne - Etymology of Cockaigne. The word Cockaigne traces to Middle English cokaygne, tracing to Middle French (païs de) cocaigne "(land of) plenty," ultimately adapted or derived from a word for cake. The Dutch equivalent is Luilekkerland ("lazy luscious ...

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Main articles: List of Skies of Arcadia characters and Skies of Arcadia things and events. Note that these sub-pages pages bear spoilers. Skies of Arcadia - Main player characters. For the voice actors, JP indicated the Japanese voice actor, and EN indicates the English voice actor. In the American Skies of Arcadia fandom, the main characters are sometimes referred to in an only somewhat tongue-in-cheek manner as OT3 (One True Threesome). Vyse: 17 year old boy, "Blu ...

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In Greek mythology, Clymenus, or Klyménos ("notorious") may refer to any number of individuals: Clymenus was the father of Eurydice. Clymenus was the son of King Aeneas of Calydon. Clymenus was a King of Olympia. Clymenus was a King of Arcadia. Clymenus was a King of Boeotia and father of Phaeton by Merope. Clymenus was also an alternate name for Hades. Category: Greek mythological people

The Alph is supposedly an "underground river" of Esotericism in Europe, symbolising the secret knowledge held in that Continent. Alph or Alpheus features in concepts of Arcadia, as well as in the famous poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan and the song Xanadu by the Canadian rock band Rush. Other related archivesArcadia, Esotericism, Europe, Kubla Khan, Rush, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Xanadu, secret knowledge

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In Greek mythology, Dardanus ("burner up") was a son of Zeus and Electra, daughter of Atlas, and founder of the city of Dardania on Mount Ida in the Troad. Dionysius of Halicarnassus (1.61–62) states that Dardanus' original home was in Arcadia where Dardanus and his elder brother Iasus (elsewhere more commonly called Iasion) reigned as kings following Atlas. Dardanus married Chryse daughter of Pallas by whom he fathered two sons: Idaeus and Deimas. When a great flood occurred, the survivors, who were living on mountain ...

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In Greek mythology, Deucalion, or Deukálion ("new-wine sailor") was the son of Prometheus and Clymene or Celaeno. When the wrath of Zeus was ignited against the whole of the Pelasgians, the original pre-Hellenic inhabitants of Greece, Zeus decided to bring an end to the Golden Age with the Great Deluge. It appears that all was not as golden as it seemed, at least not in primitive Arcadia, where an old cult of the wolf that demanded human sacrifice and the eating of human flesh lingered longest, for there the son of Pela ...

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Atalanta ("balanced") is a character from ancient Greek mythology. She was from the Arcadia region of Greece, a daughter of Iasus or Schoeneus and of Clymene. Her father (Iasus or Schoeneus) wanted a son, so after Atalanta's birth he left her exposed on a mountaintop. Artemis sent a female bear to suckle her and eventually a group of hunters raised her. Years later a beast called the Calydonian Boar was stalking the land. King Oeneus sent his son Meleager to gather up heroes to ...

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This article is about the mythological figure. For other meanings, see Callisto. From Greek mythology, Callisto was the daughter of Lycaon, the king of Arcadia, and possibly a nymph. Her name is derived from kalliste (καλλιστη), meaning "most beautiful." Callisto mythology - The myth. A follower of Artemis, she took a vow to remain a virgin. But Zeus fell in love with her and disguised himself as Apollo in order to lure her into his embrace. Hera, Zeus' wife, then turned ...

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In Greek mythology, there were two persons that had the name Amyclas: Amyclas was the son of Lacedemon and daughter of Sparta, and he was the brother of Eurydice (no relation to Orpheus' Eurydice). According to Pseudo-Apollodorus, he was the father of Hyacinth and Cynortas. Pausanias also founded equally the paternity of Laodamia, spouse of Arcas, eponymous heroes of Arcadia. He was the mythical founder of Amyclae in central Laconia. Amyclas was the son of Amphion and daughter of Niobe. He perished with his bro ...

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The famous Route 66, immortalized in song and literature, passes through Arcadia, where it is known as Huntington Drive. Running parallel to and about a mile south of the 210 freeway, it cuts across the middle section of Arcadia. The city is mentioned by Jack Kerouac in his novel On The Road: Dean, the protagonist, is run out of town by a group of hostile teens when he stops for food at a local drive-in restaurant with a young Mexican woman. The vignette demonstrates the intolerance and racism prevalent in many places during 1950s America. The drive-in restaurant may be based o ...

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According to Greek mythology, Arcadia of Peloponnesus was the domain of Pan, the virgin wilderness home of the god of the forest and his court of dryads, nymphs and other spirits of nature. It was a version of paradise, though only in the sense of being the abode of supernatural entities, not an afterlife for deceased mortals. Arcadia has remained a popular artistic subject since antiquity, both in visual arts and literature. Images of beautiful nymphs frolicking in lush forests have been a frequent source of inspiration for painters ...

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In folklore, Lycanthropy is the ability or power of a human being to undergo transformation into a wolf. The term comes from ancient Greek lykánthropos (λυκάνθρωπος): λύκος, lýkos ("wolf") + άνθρωπος, ánthrōpos ("man"). The word lycanthropy is often used generically for any transformation of a human into animal form, though the precise term for that is technically therianthropy. Folk-etymology also links the word to Lycaon, a king of Arcadia who, according to Ovid's Metamorpho ...

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Blair Brown (born 23 April 1946 in Washington, District of Columbia) is an acclaimed stage actress who has also reached a broader audience with her television and film work, particularly, in the 1980s. Examples of her stage work (in alphabetical order): Tom Stoppard's Arcadia at Lincoln Center At least two runs as Frau Schneider in Cabaret The Comedy of Errors for the New York Shakespeare Festival Copenhagen, for which she won a Tony Award in 2000 A revival of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music ...

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The word Cockaigne traces to Middle English cokaygne, tracing to Middle French (païs de) cocaigne "(land of) plenty," ultimately adapted or derived from a word for cake. The Dutch equivalent is Luilekkerland ("lazy luscious land") and the German equivalent is Schlaraffenland (also known as "land of milk and honey"). In Spain, an equivalent place of Cockaigne is n ...

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Amber Rose Tamblyn (born May 14, 1983) is an Emmy-nominated American actress and aspiring poet, best known for her television roles. She played the title character on the CBS series Joan of Arcadia. She was born in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of actor Russ Tamblyn and musician/writer Bonnie Murray. At age 10 she played Pippi Longstocking at the Santa Monica Alternative School House; her father's agent, Sharon Debord, was attending as a family friend and ended up convincing her father to allow Amber to go on auditions. Tamblyn played Emily Bowen Quartermaine for six years (1 ...

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