Galatea is an ancient Greek name meaning "she who is milk-white". Galatea, Galathea or Gallathea may refer to:

In mythology

* Galatea, three different mythological figures from Greek mythology

In the arts

* '' Aci, Galatea e Polifemo'', cantata by Handel * ''Galatea'' (Raphael), or ''The Triumph of Galatea'', a 1512 fresco of Ovid's sea-nymph * ''

Gallathea ''Gallathea'' or ''Galatea'' is an English literature#Elizabethan era, Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy by John Lyly. The first record of the play's performance was at Palace of Placentia, Greenwich Palace on New Year's Day, 1588 where it w ...

'', a late sixteenth-century play by John Lyly * '' Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed'', an 1883 musical comedy by Henry Pottinger Stephens, W. Webster and Meyer Lutz * ''Galatea'', a 2009 play by

Lawrence Aronovitch Lawrence Aronovitch is a Canadian playwright and actor based in Ottawa, Ontario. He is the playwright in residence at the Great Canadian Theatre Company. Aronovitch is a graduate of Harvard University, where he studied the history of science. As a ...

* '' La Galatea'', a sixteenth-century pastoral novel by Miguel de Cervantes * ''Galatea'' (novel), a 1953 novel by James M. Cain * ''Galatea'', a 1976 novel by

Philip Pullman Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman (born 19 October 1946) is an English writer. He is best known for the fantasy trilogy ''His Dark Materials''. The first volume, ''Northern Lights'' (1995), won the Carnegie Medal

* ', a 1977 ballet film with Ekaterina Maximova and

Māris Liepa Māris Rūdolfs Liepa (27 July 1936 – 26 March 1989) was a Soviet Latvian ballet dancer who was born in Riga and died in Moscow. He graduated from Riga Choreography School where he was taught by Valentin Blinov (Russian: Валентин Бли ...

* '' Galatea 2.2'', a 1995 novel by Richard Powers * ''Galatea'' (video game), released in 2000 * Galatea, a main figure in the ''Pygmalion and the Image'' series of four paintings by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1878) * Galatea, a major character in

Pamphilus de amore ''Pamphilus de amore'' (or, simply, ''Pamphilus'' or ''Pamfilus'') is a 780-line, 12th-century Latin comedic play, probably composed in France, but possibly Spain.Vincente Cristóbal, "Ovid in Medieval Spain", in ''Ovid in the Middle Ages'', ed. ...

, a widely-read poem from 1200 * '' Galatea of the Spheres'', a 1952 painting by Salvador Dalí

Fictional characters

* Galatea, in the manga ''

Claymore A claymore (; from , "great sword") is either the Scottish variant of the late medieval two-handed sword or the Scottish variant of the basket-hilted sword. The former is characterised as having a cross hilt of forward-sloping quillons with ...

'' by Norihiro Yagi * Galatea, an android in the 2007 novel ''

Soon I Will Be Invincible ''Soon I Will Be Invincible'' is a novel by Austin Grossman, published by Pantheon Books and released on June 5, 2007. The novel uses two alternating first person narratives—the first told from the point of view of Fatale, a female cyborg rec ...

'' by Austin Grossman * Galatea, a villain in the 1990s Japanese anime series '' Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040'' * Galatea, a supervillain appearing in ''

Justice League Unlimited ''Justice League Unlimited'' (''JLU'') is an American superhero animated series that was produced by Warner Bros. Animation with DC Comics in season 3 and aired on Cartoon Network. Featuring a wide array of superheroes from the DC Universe, and ...

'' * Galatea, a female robot in the film ''Bicentennial Man'' * Galathea, a cow in the J. R. R. Tolkien novel ''

Farmer Giles of Ham ''Farmer Giles of Ham'' is a comic medieval fable written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1937 and published in 1949. The story describes the encounters between Farmer Giles and a wily dragon named Chrysophylax, and how Giles manages to use these to r ...

'' * Galatea, a character in the mobile game ''

Fate/Grand Order is a free-to-play Japanese gacha game, gacha mobile game, developed by Lasengle (formerly Delightworks) using Unity (game engine), Unity, and published by Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Japan. The game is based on Type-Moon' ...

'' * Galatea Dunkel, in the 1957 novel ''

On the Road ''On the Road'' is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagoni ...

'' by Jack Kerouac

In science

74 Galatea 74 Galatea is a large C-type main-belt asteroid. Its carbonaceous surface is very dark in color with an albedo of just 0.034. Galatea was found by the prolific comet discoverer Ernst Tempel on August 29, 1862, in Marseille, France. It was his ...

, a large main belt asteroid * ''Galatea'' (bivalve), a genus of bivalve molluscs in the family

Donacidae The Donacidae, the "bean clams" or "wedge shells", are a family of bivalve molluscs of the superfamily Tellinoidea. The family is related to the ''Tellina ''Tellina'' is a widely distributed genus of marine (ocean), marine bivalve molluscs, i ...

Galatea (moon) Galatea , also known as Neptune VI, is the fourth-closest inner moon of Neptune, and fifth-largest moon of Neptune. It is named after Galatea, one of the fifty Nereids of Greek legend, with whom Cyclops Polyphemus was vainly in love. ...

, a moon of Neptune * ''

Galathea ''Galathea'' is a genus of squat lobsters in the family Galatheidae. It is one of the largest genera of squat lobsters that in 2008 contained 73 species (17 in the Atlantic Ocean, 25 in the Indian Ocean and 43 in the Pacific Ocean The ...

'', a genus of squat lobsters * Galatea, common name for plants of the genus ''

Dieffenbachia ''Dieffenbachia'' , commonly known as dumb cane or leopard lily, is a genus of tropical flowering plants in the family (biology), family Araceae. It is native to the New World Tropics from Mexico and the West Indies south to Argentina. Some spec ...

'' * ''Galatea'', a taxonomic synonym for the plant genus '' Galatella''

Places

Galatea, New Zealand Galatea () is a settlement in the Whakatāne District in the Bay of Plenty region of the North Island of New Zealand. The forested hills and mountains of the Ikawhenua Range and in particular Mount Tāwhiuau stand guard on the eastern flank of ...

, a village in the North Island * Galatea, Ohio, a community in the United States * Mount Galatea, in the Canadian Rockies *

Galathea National Park Galathea National Park is a national park located in the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. It is located on the island of Great Nicobar in the Nicobar Islands, which lie in the eastern Indian Ocean (Bay of Bengal). The ...

, a national park in the Nicobar Islands, India

Ships

* List of ships named ''Galatea''

Other uses

* ''Galatea'' (locomotive), a preserved example of the LMS Jubilee class of steam locomotive * Galatea II a Thoroughbred racehorse * Galatea, a type of

cotton Cotton (), first recorded in ancient India, is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus '' Gossypium'' in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure ...

twill fabric * Galatea AB, a Swedish beverage distributor