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Pygmalion Adoring His Statue by Jean Raoux, 1717. 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 ...
Pygmalion (Ancient Greek: Πυγμαλίων Pugmaliōn; Latin: Pygmalion) was king of Tyre [1] from 831 to 785 BCE and a son of King Mattan I (840–832 BC).. During Pygmalion's reign, Tyre seems to have shifted the heart of its trading empire from the Middle East to the Mediterranean, as can be judged from the building of new colonies including Kition on Cyprus, Sardinia (see Nora Stone ...
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]
A statue carved out of ivory by Pygmalion. Pygmalion fell in love with Galatea and after Pygmalion had sacrificed to Venus (mythology) during her festival, Galatea was made into a real woman. X: 247-297 [102] Ganymede: Son of the Dardanian King Tros and brother of Ilus (the founder of Ilion) and Assaracus (the grandfather of Aeneas). X: 155 ...
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.
Pygmalion and Galatea are two characters from Greco-Roman mythology. Pygmalion and Galatea may also refer to: Pygmalion and Galatea, a play by W. S. Gilbert; Pygmalion and the Image series, a series of paintings by Edward Burne-Jones; Pygmalion and Galatea (Gérôme painting), a painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme
Pygmalion is the most influential dramatic work by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, other than his opera Le devin du village.Though now rarely performed, it was one of the first ever melodramas (that is, a play consisting of pantomime gestures and the spoken word, both with a musical accompaniment).