Now that the mythical Hyperboreans and the imaginary Ethiopians have been discussed noble savages that were known by the Greeks and Romans to have existed will be considered. Unlike the former idealised people, the land of the Arcadians was accessible to the Graeco-Roman world, yet the notion of these people as a noble savage living the life of a golden race people persists in literature. Lovejoy and Boas note that they are particularly interesting because they are geographically located in Greece; the ethnocentric space. Because of its close-proximity to the civilised world it is easier to create inversions of the ethnocentric viewpoint. They have many traits characteristic of the golden race: pastoral life, position as the first humans, and vegetarianism among them. Theopompus relates that the Arcadians received both masters and slaves at their feasts at which all ate the same food. This indicates a communal lifestyle typical of the golden age. This communal feasting of master and slave is similar to the Ethiopians and the Hyperboreans feasting on an equal level with gods. Pausanias relates that the Arcadians are descended from Pelasgus who was responsible for providing them sheep-skins as clothes, huts as shelter from the cold, and a diet of acorns as food; developments which have not been improved upon. Here the founding-father myth of a noble savage people is present like Olen of the Hyperboreans as well as their shared diet of acorns. Polybius describes the Arcadians’