If so, it would explain the penchant of the dark Athenians for the fair-skinned cytherea.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
And to this man, through the first perilous season of youth, so abnormally safe from youth's most wonted peril,-to this would-be pupil of realism, this learned adept in the schools of a Welby or a Mivers,-to this man, love came at last as with the fatal powers of the fabled cytherea; and with that love all the realisms of life became ideals, all the stern lines of our commonplace destinies undulated into curves of beauty, all the trite sounds of our every-day life attuned into delicacies of song.
"Kenelm Chillingly, Book 8."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The flowers flush red for anguish, and cytherea through all the mountain-knees, through every dell doth utter piteous dirge: "'Woe, woe for cytherea, he hath perished, the lovely Adonis!
"A Book of Myths"
Jean Lang