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Pygmalion derives its name from the famous story in Ovid's Metamorphoses, in which Pygmalion, disgusted by the loose and shameful lives of the women of his era, decides to live alone and unmarried. With wondrous art, he creates a beautiful statue more perfect than any living woman. The more he looks upon her, the more deeply he falls in love ...
Sep 29, 2016 · My research suggests the evolution of the Pygmalion myth followed a human migration from northeastern to southern Africa that previous genetic studies indicate took place around 2,000 years ago.
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Pygmalion Adoring His Statue by Jean Raoux, 1717. In Greek mythology, Pygmalion (/ pɪɡˈmeɪliən /; 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 ...
This article was most recently revised and updated by Virginia Gorlinski. Pygmalion, in Greek mythology, a king who was the father of Metharme and, through her marriage to Cinyras, the grandfather of Adonis, according to Apollodorus of Athens. The Roman poet Ovid, in his Metamorphoses, Book X, relates that Pygmalion, a sculptor, makes an ivory ...
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There is a story in classical mythology where Pygmalion, the sculptor, spends his days on the island of Cyprus creating a beautiful female statue. The myth doesn’t say he was dimwit-ted, it simply records that he ‘fell in love’ with it and earnest-ly prayed to Venus to bring the statue to life.
Bk X:243-297 Orpheus sings: Pygmalion and the statue. ‘Pygmalion had seen them, spending their lives in wickedness, and, offended by the failings that nature gave the female heart, he lived as a bachelor, without a wife or partner for his bed. But, with wonderful skill, he carved a figure, brilliantly, out of snow-white ivory, no mortal woman ...
Sep 25, 2024 · Pygmalion, romance in five acts by George Bernard Shaw, produced in German in 1913 in Vienna. It was performed in England in 1914, with Mrs. Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle. The play is a humane comedy about love and the English class system. Learn more about the play in this article.
