Talk:Arcadia (regional unit)

Etymology of Arcadia
The name "Arcadia" or 'Arcas" is agnate (i.e. is etymologically tantamount) with the name "Argos".

Argolis is a region next to arcadia but surely not Arcadia and Argos is the capital of the perfecture. Arcadia is the state king Arcas, son of Lykaonas, made. When arcas died he became the great "arctos" star system. Not sure how you name it in english. ARGOS is NOT in Arcadia.

No one refers to Arcadia with the name arcady. The last one maybe is for arkadi in the island af Crete, which is an ancient colony of arcadians (not sure for that). Surely not our arcadia. There is no writen or oral referance for arcady.

Obviously, proto-Argives (i.e. Arcades) (this is stupid for someone who speek greek) were the people who fled for refuge to mountainous posterior Arcadia when Achaeans invaded Argolis and conquered Argos and the other cities.

Everything mensioned above cannot be true. Arcadians where the first to be here and that's why Irodotous the great historian refers to them as "proselinoi - προσέληνοι" which means before moon was made.

So, Arcades was dissosiated [sic] from Argives (i.e. the Achaens conquerors)(perhaps, in second half of 2nd millennium BC)(stupid as well).

--IonnKorr 21:24, 5 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Source? This would be great to add to the article if it can be sourced. --DavidConrad 05:05, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

I tego arcanum dei
I've seen this phrase in many places (i.e. more places than I've seen the current spelling) as "I tego arcana dei". I'm not going to pretend to know Greek, so what's the correct version and what's the difference? akuyume TC


 * That's Latin, not Greek. In Greek, "dei" would mean "must, has to", not "of the gods". The differences are 1) arcanum is singular, arcana plural, so arcana matches "secrets" in the English translation, and 2) arcana actually makes the anagram work. The version in the article isn't an anagram (which is what brought me here to the talk page in the first place), so it appears that "arcana" is actually what was intended.


 * I was just going to ask about this, but seeing your message, I think I will be bold and go ahead and change it to "arcana". --DavidConrad 05:14, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Akkadians
Under "References in Popular Culture", I see the following In the film The Scorpion King, the three assassins are Akkadians. Does the contributor mean Akkadians, or Acadians (what is this? we are talking about aRcadia here) ? Small point, perhaps, but two peoples widely separated in time and culture. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.99.114.27 (talk) 12:48, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Pan
Arcadia was the home of the god Pan. Maybe this should be mentioned in the history/mythology section.Lily20 (talk) 17:13, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

"References in popular culture" section is way too long
I just added Template:In popular culture to the "References in popular culture" section. That section is getting way too long, and half of it is just a list of things that happen to be named "Arcadia" (with the relevance to the region of Greece itself not made clear). It also contains more than a few entries that are clearly just self-advertisements. Someone should heavily trim the list to only the most relevant and clear examples of references to the subject of the article. --V2Blast (talk) 06:48, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

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