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Falconet's 1763 sculpture Pygmalion and Galatea (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore). Galatea (/ ˌ ɡ æ l ə ˈ t iː ə /; Ancient Greek: Γαλάτεια; "she who is milk-white") [1] is the post-antiquity name popularly applied to the statue carved of ivory alabaster by Pygmalion of Cyprus, which then came to life in Greek mythology.
In Greek mythology, Galatea (/ ˌ ɡ æ l ə ˈ t iː ə /; Ancient Greek: Γαλάτεια; "she who is milk-white") [1] was the name of the following figures: Galatea, a Nereid who loved the shepherd Acis, and was loved by the cyclops Polyphemus. [2] Galatea, the statue of a woman created by Pygmalion and brought to life by Aphrodite. [3]
Acis and Galatea (/ ˈ eɪ s ɪ s /, / ɡ æ l ə ˈ t iː. ə / [1] [2]) are characters from Greek mythology later associated together in Ovid's Metamorphoses.The episode tells of the love between the mortal Acis and the Nereid (sea-nymph) Galatea; when the jealous Cyclops Polyphemus kills Acis, Galatea transforms her lover into an immortal river spirit.
The mortal Acis and the nymph Galatea were happily in love, but the cyclops Polyphemus also loved her. One day he saw them together, and in rage killed Acis by hurling a huge rock at him. Galatea saved her beloved by transforming him into a river god. Aea: Aea Phasis: Aea was a Colchian hunter that the river-god Phasis fell in love with and ...
In Greek mythology, Pygmalion (/ p ɪ ɡ ˈ m eɪ l i ən /; Ancient Greek: Πυγμαλίων Pugmalíōn, gen.: Πυγμαλίωνος) was a legendary figure of Cyprus . He is most familiar from Ovid 's narrative poem Metamorphoses , in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved.
Dying Gaul, Roman copy of a Hellenistic sculpture of a dying Galatian warrior, wearing a torc. Capitoline Museums.. The Galatians (Ancient Greek: Γαλάται ...
Pygmalion and Galatea is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French painter Anne-Louis Girodet. It represents the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea as told by Ovid in the Metamorphoses. The figures Pygmalion and Galatea are shown with Cupid, the god of desire. Girodet began the work in 1813, but it took him six years to complete. [1] [1]
Lamprus wished for a son, and told his wife that if the baby turned out to be a girl, they would expose it. One day while he was tending to their flocks, Galatea gave birth to a girl but pitying her child she lied to Lamprus and told him she had had a son. Galatea named the child Leucippus ("white horse") and raised her as a boy for some years.