Re: OT: NAXOS (was: Re: [Arianne-general] Announcements.)

[SP I. E. 0. <Ste...@br...>]

hehe, im greek and i can verify that Naxos is a really nice place! I havent 
been there but i have been to Paros and other surrounding islands. Its an 
honor to Greek mythology to have Arianne choose part of it! :)

Steve

--On Friday, October 18, 2002 10:33 PM +0200 Peter Gantner 
<pet...@un...> wrote:

> Quoting Euan Mee from Oct 18
>
> <<BIG SNIP>>
>> Why 'Naxos'?
>>
>> Names that demonstrate how closely interrelated the two aspects
>>   are to each other are a good idea.
>> Arianne was the originally the name for the overall initiative.  This
>>  has never been formally changed.
>> So IMO, the overall iniative retains the Arianne name.
>> So what name should the
>
>> ArianneGameServerEngineDevelopmentSubproject adopt?
>>
>> 'Naxos'
>>
>> As in 'Ariadne on Naxos' - the name of the opera about our
>> Arianne.
>>
>> Naxos is an island of rock - and I think we ought to be aimed for
>> an engine with the stability of bedrock.
>
> It also is a very beautiful rock.
> In case you want to visit, look at
> http://www.greekislands.com/naxos/
>
> For those interested, some info I copypasted from that site:
>
> Geography:
> ---------
> axos is the largest island of Cyclades -almost in the centre of
> Cyclades- and very close to Paros. Naxos is 103 nautical miles from
> Piraeus, it has an area of 428 sq. km, a shoreline of 148 km. and a
> population of 18,000.
> The island can be reached by air from Athens and by ferry from
> Piraeus and Rafina (on the east cast of Attica), with large, modern
> passenger and car ferries. Some services go directly to the island
> and others make previous stops at Paros, Ios, Santorini and Tinos
>
> (nice project names in there:
>   Cyclades: Arianne\Naxos distributed server project
>   Piraeus: non-local login- and master-server project
>   ...)
>
> Mythology:
> ---------
> Naxos is the island of Bacchus and Ariadne.
> Bacchus (or Dionysus), the god of wine, was living here when Theseus,
> returning from Crete, abandoned Ariadne, the daughter of cretean King
> Minos, who had helped him to slay the Minotaur, on the island.
> But Ariadne finally found consolation in the arms of Bacchus and
> became his wife.
>
> (may I propose to call the first official Arianne\Naxos server
> Bachhus?)
>
> Their marriage, her death and the rebirth which that death
> foreshadows were in antiquity the focus of wild celebrations on
> Naxos, where this cult, focusing on the ripening, death and
> regenaration of nature was most highly developed.
>
>  (... no comment ;))
>
> Thats all for now, go to the link for more...
>
> sorry for posting off-topic
> 	Peter
>
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