Arcadia (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Sir Philip Sidney
- First Published: 1590
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Pastoral
- Time of Work: Antiquity
- Setting: Arcadia, Greece
- Principal Characters: Prince Pyrocles, Prince Musidorus, Basilius, Gynecia, Pamela, Philoclea, Philanax, Dametas, Miso, Mopsa, Evarchus
- Genres: Long fiction, Pastoral
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Love or romance, Mistaken or secret identity, Rural or country life, Greek or Roman times, Greece or Greek people, Princes or princesses, Shepherds
- Locales: Greece, ancient, Macedon, Arcadia, Greece
The Story:
Basilius was the powerful duke of Arcadia, a quiet and peaceful province of Greece. He ruled his faithful subjects happily and well. Overcome by an ungovernable curiosity to learn what the future held for him, his wife Gynecia, and his beautiful daughters Pamela and Philoclea, he went to consult the Oracle at Delphos. There he was told that his older daughter, Pamela, would be stolen from him; his younger daughter would engage in an unsuitable love affair; his wife would commit adultery; and a foreign ruler would sit upon his throne—all within a year.
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