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	Gervase Markham Markham, Gervase (1568–1637), wrote on country pursuits, the art of war, and horsemanship; also plays and poems. His works include A Discource of Horsmanshippe (1593), Cavelarice, or the English Horseman (1607), Markham's Methode or Epitome (?1616), and Markhams Faithful Farrier (1629).... Read more
	Arcadia ARCADIA, codename for the first Washington conference ( 22 December 1941 to 14 January 1942) at which Churchill, Roosevelt, and their military advisers hammered out future strategy and the mechanisms to be used to co-ordinate their war effort (see Grand Alliance). At the suggestion of the... Read more
	pastoral pastoral literary work in which the shepherd's life is presented in a conventionalized manner. In this convention the purity and simplicity of shepherd life is contrasted with the corruption and artificiality of the court or the city. The pastoral is found in poetry, drama, and fiction, and many... Read more
	Evander Evander , in Greek religion, a minor deity worshiped in Arcadia in connection with Pan. In Roman religion, he was said to have introduced the worship of Faunus and to have founded the festival of Lupercalia . In Vergil's Aeneid, Evander shows Aeneas the site on which Rome will be built.... Read more
	Stymphalian birds Stymphalian birds , in Greek mythology, dangerous man-eating birds that infested the woods around Lake Stymphalus in Arcadia. As his fifth labor, Hercules frightened the birds into the air with a huge rattle and then killed them.... Read more
	Sir Philip Sidney Sir Philip Sidney 1554-86, English author and courtier. He was one of the leading members of Queen Elizabeth's court and a model of Renaissance chivalry. He served in several diplomatic missions on the Continent and in 1586 was fatally wounded at the battle of Zutphen. Sidney exerted a strong... Read more
	Tom Stoppard Tom Stoppard 1937-, English playwright, b. Zlín, Czechoslovakia (now in the Czech Republic), as Tomas Straussler. During his childhood he and his family moved to Singapore, later (1946) settling in Bristol, England, where he became a journalist. In 1960 he moved to London, where he became a... Read more
	Mary Herbert countess of Pembroke Mary Herbert Pembroke, countess of 1561-1621; sister of Sir Philip Sidney. His Arcadia was written for her, and after his death she prepared it and his other works for publication. Patron of a number of poets, including Daniel, Spenser, and Jonson, she formed with them a literary... Read more
	Styx Styx , in Greek mythology, river of Hades that the souls of the dead had to cross on their journey from the realm of the living. It was a sacred river, and by its name even the gods took their most solemn oaths. The river was personified as a nymph, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys and mother of Nike.... Read more
	Tripolis Trípolis , town (1991 pop. 22,463), capital of Arcadia prefecture, S Greece, in the Peloponnesus. It is a transportation and agricultural center and a summer resort. A variety of light manufactures are produced. Founded c.1467 near the sites of the ancient cities of Mantinea, Pallantium, and... Read more