page_title: Pygmalion (mythology)
hierarchical_section_title: Pygmalion (mythology)
caption_attribution_description: English: Painted after his return to France. Pygmalion was suspicious of women, and remained unmarried. He made a statue and fell in love with it. He begs Venus to bring his ivory creation into life. Galatea later becomes Pygmalion's wife.
context_page_description: Pygmalion is a legendary figure of Cyprus in Greek mythology who was a king and a sculptor. Though Pygmalion is the Greek version of the Phoenician royal name Pumayyaton, 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.
context_section_description: Pygmalion (/pɪɡˈmeɪliən/; Ancient Greek: Πυγμαλίων Pugmalíōn, gen.: Πυγμαλίωνος) is a legendary figure of Cyprus in Greek mythology who was a king and a sculptor. Though Pygmalion is the Greek version of the Phoenician royal name Pumayyaton, 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.
caption: Pygmalion adoring his statue, a 1717 depiction of Ovid's narrative by Jean Raoux.
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