-
known as
golden apple and
elsewhere in the
Caribbean as
pommecythere or
cythere. In
Polynesia it is
known as vī. This fast-growing tree can
reach up to...
- The
Embarkation for
Cythera ("L'embarquement pour
Cythère") is a
painting by the
French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau. It is also
known as
Voyage to Cythera...
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Cythère ****iégée (Cythera Besieged) is an
opera by the
composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. The French-language
libretto is by Charles-Simon Favart. The...
- in
Cristoph Willibald Gluck's
operas Der
betrogene Kadi (1761) and La
Cythère ****iégée (1775). The
first piece to use the
triangle prominently was Franz...
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Leptocytheridae Genus:
Callistocythere Species: C. elegans
Binomial name
Callistocythere elegans (Mueller, 1894)
Synonyms Cythere elegans Mueller, 1894...
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dancing teachers," a name
probably derived from a
shortening of Old
English cythere, from
Latin cithara, from Gr****
kithara (see guitar). Historically, catgut...
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Couperin wrote Le
Carillon de
Cythere for harpsichord.
Watteau represents the
island in his
painting Embarquement pour
Cythère Charles Baudelaire, in the...
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Arthropoda class:
Ostracoda Order:
Platycopida Family:
Cytherellidae Genus:
Cytherella Jones, 1849
Species See text
Synonyms Cythere (Cytherella) Jones, 1849...
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premiered 1924 in a
production of
Count Etienne de
Beaumont La
nouvelle Cythère by Tailleferre;
written in 1929 for the
Ballets Russes and
unproduced because...
- life in Paris. In 1922 he
published the
erotic work Les
Princesses de
Cythère. His La Muse en rut, a
collection of
erotic poems,
appeared in 1928. He...
