Et in Arcadia Ego - Other Appearances

Other Appearances

• Et in Arcadia ego (the German Auch ich in Arkadien! is used) is the motto of Italian Journey (1816−17) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
• Et in Arcadia ego is the title of section 295, Volume II, Part Two ("The Wanderer and his Shadow"), of Friedrich Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human (1880). The passage describes a pastoral evening scene in the high mountains, finishing with the lines: "Unconsciously, as if nothing could be more natural, you peopled this pure, clear world of light (which had no trace of yearning, of expectancy, of looking forward or backward) with Greek heroes. You felt it all as Poussin and his school felt it, at once heroic and idyllic. So individual men too have lived, constantly feeling themselves in the world and the world in themselves, and among them one of the greatest men, the inventor of a heroico-idyllic form of philosophy, Epicurus."
• Et in Arcadia Ego is the title of Book One of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited in which the narrator, Charles Ryder, describes his room decorated with a skull bearing the phrase.
• The phrase appears in Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian when the character Tobin informs The Kid that the phrase is the name Judge Holden has ascribed to his rifle, noting "A reference to the lethal in it."
• Ben Okri's In Arcadia follows a filmcrew shooting a documentary about Nicolas Poussin's painting.
• Et in Arcadia ego was the originally planned title of Tom Stoppard's play, Arcadia, in which the phrase is used erroneously by one character (whose misuse is acknowledged by two other characters). The phrase also reflects the themes of the play itself.
• "Et in Arcadia Ego" is also the title of a work by the Czech science fiction writer Simon Sedivak, where Arcadia is described as a planet.
• Arcadia was the name of Duran Duran's spin off band formed in 1985 by Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes and Roger Taylor reportedly because of the inscription on this painting.