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#1 Bryce

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Posted 07 April 2003 - 03:05 PM

[url="http://"http://www.kythera.net/index1.html"]http://www.kythera.net/index1.html[/url]
Travel to the tiny Greek island. Yes, Victoria, there is a Cythera...
(It should be noted that while there is a 'k' on the name of this island, that is a recognized pronuciation of the game's name. (See the Ambrosia times article where 'Sitheera' and 'Kitheera' are both considered valid ways of saying it.) I assume that the reason for the modifacation of the spelling was to avoid confusion. )

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Posted 07 April 2003 - 05:54 PM

So I've only been horribly pronouncing it wrong for three years, great.

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Posted 07 April 2003 - 06:02 PM

I always pronounced it sie-ther-a. oh well.

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Posted 07 April 2003 - 06:14 PM

Same here. I guess its just interpretation.

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Posted 08 April 2003 - 04:33 AM

It was firmly in mind Sithra... But it harldy matters does it, spelt the same.

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Posted 08 April 2003 - 12:45 PM

So now everyone cares about the way you say it and not that it actualy exists. Amazing.
Oh, I changed my sig to avoid confusion.

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Posted 08 April 2003 - 03:33 PM

I knew it exists, duh.

I still don't know how to pronounce it, though. Posted Image

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Posted 08 April 2003 - 04:08 PM

I pronounced/pronounce it sie-thair-ra...*shrug*

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Posted 08 April 2003 - 04:55 PM

That sounds interesting. A flower that doesn't wither even when cut and left unwatered.

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Posted 09 April 2003 - 07:09 AM

I wonder though, if this, like that city with a like-ness to Kosha (can't remember it';s name now) was known to Glenn and the team when they made the game...

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Posted 09 April 2003 - 08:53 AM

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Originally posted by dusk:
I wonder though, if this, like that city with a like-ness to Kosha (can't remember it';s name now) was known to Glenn and the team when they made the game...

Mr. Andreas' minor was History, so he has exposure to this sort of thing. He even said he used his history knowledge in making Cythera. So I think you could honestly say that almost all the stuff in the game that looks like the real world is from the real world.

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Posted 13 April 2003 - 03:40 PM

Well, in the [url="http://"http://www.kythera.net/main/paintings.htm"]paintings section[/url] and the [url="http://"http://www.kythera.net/main/films.htm"]films section[/url],they call it "Cythere" and "Cythera". Mr. Andreas probably knew of the painting, if not the island and the [url="http://"http://www.kythera.net/main/history.htm"]myth[/url].

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Posted 13 April 2003 - 06:26 PM

If I recall, Kíthira was a center of worship for Aphrodite. However, there doesn't seem to be much of an emphasis upon beauty in Cythera, so that may be a rather useless piece of information.

Depending on my mood, I pronounce it either KITH-ir-ah, or cy-THAIR-ah; I don't have one I really stick to, and I don't really know if the former is correct for the spelling.

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Posted 19 April 2003 - 05:07 AM

Actually, there's no direct equivalent to 'y' in ancient greek. The greek letter usually transliterated as 'y' is upsilon, which has kind of an 'oo' sound with a sharpened pitch, for which there's no direct match in modern english. That means the strictly correct pronunciation would be 'Koothera' (hard kappa, not soft sigma.)

But that still won't stop me saying it 'sye-thera'. Posted Image

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Posted 25 April 2003 - 11:59 PM

If you look at most (all?) of the names of the people, they have historical/mythical connections, mostly Greek. I haven't played in a while, but I remember that when I got my atlas of the ancient world, there were a great many borrowed names from the ancient world.

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