What is the story of Arcadia in Mythology? Please give sources...?

Answer 1

It is "the land of the bear" and was actually a city state of ancient greece. Arcas was the son of Zeus and Callisto that Hera turned into a bear. He was set in the sky as the ursa minor and major constellations.

A more recent interpretation of the word is a borrwoing of the original to describe a sort of Fey kingdom . Since it's a borrowed usage it doesn't realy ascribe to established mythology, the only ancient ascribing to Arcadia would be the sky as the place of the stars that heroes and figures are immortalized by the gods. More modern interpretations see it as a sort of astral realm and a dwelling place of magickal spirits. However, mythologies tend to blend and it holds many of the attributes ascribed to Akasha. The trouble here is that the greeks where the term of Arcadia comes from had no real beleif in multiple planes other than earth and Olympus, the dwelling of the Gods. Hence the term is often misused or labeled upon other beliefs.

Answer 2

Arcadia (Greek: Ἀρκαδία) was a province of ancient Greece. It has become a poetical name for fantasy land (having more or less the same connotation as Utopia), a concept originating in Renaissance mythology of a land of outstanding natural beauty unspoiled by human civilisation, free of war and pain and offering boundless pleasures both spiritual and physical. The inhabitants were often regarded as having continued to live after the manner of the Golden Age, without the pride and avarice that corrupted other regions. It is also sometimes referred to in English poetry as

Answer 3

Arcas, in Greek mythology, is the son of Zeus and Callisto who some said was the child that impious Lycaon served to Zeus at a banquet. The district of Arcadia, formerly called Pelasgia, is called after him. After his death, he was turned into the constellation Bear-Watcher (Bootes) that guards the Great Bear. He is also called Arctophylax since he guards Arctos (Great Bear) which is his mother Callisto, placed among the stars by Zeus. Arcas is said to have introduced the cultivation of crops, which he learned from Triptolemus. During his time, men learned to make bread and to weave clothes.

Hesiod says Callisto was the daughter of Lycaon and lived in Arcadia. She chose to occupy herself with wild-beasts in the mountains together with Artemis, and, when she was seduced by Zeus, continued some time undetected by the goddess, but afterwards, when she was already with child, was seen by her bathing and so discovered. Upon this, the goddess was enraged and changed her into a beast. Thus she became a bear and gave birth to a son called Arcas. But while she was in the mountains, she was hunted by some goat-herds and given up with her babe to Lycaon. Some while after, she thought fit to go into the forbidden precinct of Zeus, not knowing the law, and being pursued by her own son and the Arcadians, was about to be killed because of the said law; but Zeus delivered her because of her connection with him and put her among the stars, giving her the name Bear because of the misfortune which had befallen her. -Pseudo-Eratosthenes Catast. frag. 1