Talk:Arcadia Valley, Queensland

Comment on the history of the name (moved from the article)
....Correction by Spiro: Arcadia does not mean "quiet rural simplicity" it is a photogenic Greek word (also the name of the State of Arcadia in Greece" and the word is subject to debate over its meaning for Greek scholars, one theory explains the word as deriving from the word ARCAS which means INDIGENOUS and ARCADIA as the land of indigenous, that is my favorite explanation for the Australian name. Personally I also think that the name comes from the resemblance of the valley it self to the "typical" Peloponnesean valleys that you find in Arcadia Greece.http://www.arcadians.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=80:-q&catid=89


 * Spiro, I don't think the article (or the source it derives from) is trying to say that "quiet rural simplicity" is a literal translation of the Greek, but is referring to the concept of Arcadia (utopia) which has that meaning. Maybe the article can be better worded to make that clearer? You may well be right that those who named this Queensland district were influenced by a physical resemblance to the valley in Greece, but we need a citation to support that claim. Kerry (talk) 21:45, 23 August 2016 (UTC)