Arcadia

Arcadia (Arca`dia) , a mountain-girt pastoral tableland in the heart of the Morea, 50 m. long by 40 broad, conceived by the poets as a land of shepherds and shepherdesses, and rustic simplicity and bliss, and was the seat of the worship of Artemis and Pan.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)