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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 ...
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 ...
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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Pygmalion. The story of Pygmalion has had several incarnations over time. Its foundations lie in a Greek legend about a king of Cyprus who fell in love with a statue of the goddess Aphrodite. The Roman poet Ovid used this tale to fashion the story of a sculptor named Pygmalion who created a statue of ivory representing his ideal of womanhood.
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One of the verses I find most moving in the book of Joshua describes the ceasing of the manna upon the Israelites’ entry into the land of Israel:
I picture the people of Israel, who rose each and every morning to find their food waiting for them outside, waking up one morning in the land of Canaan to a new reality, in which food is, supposedly, absent. The description is quite neutral and does not communicate any emotional reactions – not upon receiving the manna, nor during the first days a...
The description is grim. The journey through the desert is portrayed as a tortuous and tormenting trial. The eating of manna is not portrayed in a positive light, despite what we may expect in a reality in which all of our needs are met. The opposite is true – eating the manna consists of suffering and starvation. I would like to focus our attentio...
Even though these descriptions may depict an ideal reality that offers complete certainty regarding judicial proceedings and rulings, according to the author of the midrash, Moshe, who speaks upon entering the land of Israel, views these attributes, which detach the judicial act from human discretion, as elements of torture. What alternative relati...
The manna itself teaches that like other foods and bread, it itself is insufficient, when offered alone it leaves people in a state of hunger and suffering. People need that which comes forth from the mouth of God as well. What kind of relationship does a reality based on “what comes from God’s mouth” have to offer? Supposedly, that is the manna’s ...
What comes from God’s mouth is compared to rain and snow that fall from the sky. Indeed, this image reminds us of God’s words falling from the sky, similar to the manna, but what I find interesting is the condition stated in the verse: the rain and snow do not return to the sky. Instead, they saturate the earth, which in turn cultivates and provide...
Falling in love with his own creation. One fine day, Pygmalion carved the statue of a woman of unparalleled beauty. She looked so gentle and divine that he could not take his eyes off the statue. Enchanted with his own creation, he felt waves of joy and desire sweeping over his body and in a moment of inspiration he named the figurine, Galatea ...
THE PYGMALION MYTH James (P.) Ovid's Myth of Pygmalion on Screen. In Pursuit of the Perfect Woman . Pp. x + 231, ills. London and New York: Continuum, 2011. Cased, £60. ISBN: 978-1-4411-8466-5. doi: 1 0. 1 0 1 7/S0009840X 1 200338 1 The fast-growing field of cinematic reception studies contains several case studies of
