Pygmalion
Pygmalion or Pigmalion may refer to: Mythology * Pygmalion (mythology), a sculptor who fell in love with his statue Stage * ''Pigmalion'' (opera), a 1745 opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau * ''Pygmalion'' (Rousseau), a 1762 melodrama by Jean-Jacques Rousseau * ''Pygmalion'' (opera), a 1779 duodrama opera by Georg Anton Benda * ''Pygmalion'', an 1808 opera by Karol Kurpiński * ''Pimmalione'', an 1809 opera by Luigi Cherubini * ''Il Pigmalione'', an 1816 opera by Gaetano Donizetti * '' Die schöne Galathée'', an 1865 operetta by Franz von Suppé * ''Pygmalion; or, The Statue Fair'', an 1867 musical burlesque by William Brough * '' Pygmalion, ou La Statue de Chypre'', an 1883 ballet with choreography by Marius Petipa * ''Pygmalion'' (play), a 1913 play by George Bernard Shaw Film * ''Pygmalion'' (1935 film), a German film based on the George Bernard Shaw play * ''Pygmalion'' (1937 film), a Dutch film based on the George Bernard Shaw play * ''Pygmalion'' (1938 film), a British film ...
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Pygmalion (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Pygmalion (; Ancient Greek: Πυγμαλίων ''Pugmalíōn'', ''gen''.: Πυγμαλίωνος) was a legendary figure of Cyprus, who was a king and a sculptor. 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. In Ovid In book 10 of Ovid's ''Metamorphoses'', Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory. He named her Galatea. According to Ovid, when Pygmalion saw the Propoetides of Cyprus practicing prostitution, he began "detesting the faults beyond measure which nature has given to women". He determined to remain celibate and to occupy himself with sculpting. He made a sculpture of a woman that he found so perfect he fell in love with it. Pygmalion kisses and fondles the sculpture, brings it various gifts, and creates a sumptuous bed for it. In time, Aphrodite's festival day came and Pygmalion made offerings at the altar of Aphrodite. The ...
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