Timeline for What does "Et In Arcadia, Ego" refer to?
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| Mar 23, 2020 at 16:17 | comment | added | Jimmery | @PLL could the phrase be interpreted as "Even in paradise, there is death"? Regardless, this phrase is so apt for this episode because the episode takes place on a hidden planet, portrayed as an ideal pastoral idyll - a green and verdant paradise world of sorts - inhabited by a race of androids (with the odd human) - and when threatened the androids decide to fight back, which could easily lead to the deaths of many - hence the title of the episode. | |
| Mar 23, 2020 at 14:14 | comment | added | Mast | This could be improved by elaborating why the phrase is so apt for this episode. | |
| Mar 22, 2020 at 19:18 | comment | added | J W | I came across the phrase in Mark Chadbourn's The Hounds of Avalon, in which it plays an important part in the story. (Being intentionally vague to avoid spoilers.) | |
| Mar 21, 2020 at 12:40 | comment | added | releseabe | I was introduced to the phrase and its meaning Blood Meridian (McCarthy) -- it is written on the Judge's gun. One character explains basically that it refers to the "lethal in it." | |
| Mar 21, 2020 at 7:43 | history | edited | Lexible | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 21, 2020 at 4:41 | comment | added | Lexible | Plug for Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (excellent radio play) where the quote appears also, and which has been described as the most important English language play of the 20th century (which, you know is hyperbolic, but gives an insight into how the play has been received). | |
| Mar 21, 2020 at 4:23 | comment | added | Martha | On the Guercino painting, my immediate thought is that the inscription continues around the other sides of the pedestal. Surely I'm not the first person to have this idea, but the Wikipedia article doesn't even mention the possibility, let alone any candidate quotations or authors that could've been the source. :/ | |
| Mar 20, 2020 at 23:25 | history | answered | PLL | CC BY-SA 4.0 |