Iwould rather this article was more about Arcadia than about me,’ says Wendy Copage, quite sincerely – although she has done more than anyone in recent times literally to put this fabled but very real part of Greece on the map.
So, yes, let's talk about Arcadia – before we come on to the remarkable work done by this 6o-year-old Yorkshirewoman, who has just been granted Greek citizenship, thanks to her fluency in the language and her decades-long passion for her adopted country, particularly the wild beauty of its most unspoilt area.
In the history of art and literature, Arcadia is as much an idea as a place. In myth, it was the realm of the god Pan and featured in the poetry of Theocritus
