Talk:Galatea (mythology)

message: Quote: "No extant ancient text mentions her name."
Galatea is mentioned in Virgil's third Eclogue, line 64: "Malo me Galatea petit..."
The name is not even mentioned in connection with Virgil; this must be corrected.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tcudney1 (talk • contribs) 23:03, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

message: Re the first line of the Galatea statue entry:
:"Bibliotheke, the Hellenistic compendium of myth long attributed to Apollodorus, relates[3] the myth of the earlier milky-white Galatea"
Could this be reworded? Apollodorus never mentions the story of the statue, only this genealogy - 
: "This Cinyras in Cyprus, whither he had come with some people, founded Paphos; and having there married Metharme, daughter of Pygmalion, king of Cyprus, he begat Oxyporus and Adonis." Apollodorus 3.14
Ovid speaks of the statue, but he is simply retelling an older Greek or Cypriot tale.
Also perhaps it worth emphasizing that the sculpted woman is never named by Galatea by any classical writer - the name being coined by a post-classical writer. Theranos 07:47, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:   Galatea the statue 

message: References to Ovid's Metamorphoses have been deleted twice. This is the former text (footnotes preserved in the html: "In Ovid's Metamorphoses,Metamorphoses xiii.750-68. Galatea ("she who is milk-white"A suitable epithet of Aphrodite.) was the name of a Sicilian Nereid—a sea-nymph—yearned for by the Cyclops Polyphemus." I am removing this from my Watchlist: you're on your own. --Wetman 13:39, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Dropp[ed references

message: I'm confused about this article. The first line says that 
::"Galatea ("she who is milk-white") was the name of three figures in Greek mythology, the most well-known being the wife of Pygmalion."
Then later it says the wife of Galatea is not given a name in Greek mythology. Which is true? Is Galatea the wife of Pygmalion in Greek mythology or not? Thanks! --Lysianna 08:56, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've expanded the statement in order to make it clear and given references and notes. The fact is, the animated sculpture gained the name Galatea in the eighteenth century: today it passes for antique in the school textbooks. --Wetman 08:06, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confused 

message: A problem with the thrust of the article is the claim that Galatea is most often associated with Pygmalion.  Search classical sites on Google and you will always read about the relations with Polyphemus and Acis first, and sometimes the connection with Pygmalion is not even mentioned.
Look under art works, etc., and the Acis or Polyphemus connection will generally bring up more hits.
I clarified some of the language about no classical text mentioning her name.  Sure, that is true, but only in terms of her connection with Pygmalion.
DagorausWhear (talk) 00:46, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Emphasizing the association with Pygmalion is questionable

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message: This article has a convoluted history, but as it currently stands, it's about the statue that comes to life in the Pygmalion story. There's another mythological Galatea in the story of Acis and Galatea, who was formerly covered here, but is now covered in the story's article. Clearly the title Galatea (mythology) is incomplete disambiguation and needs to change. What if we merge it with Pygmalion (mythology)? The statue character is exclusively known from the Pygmalion story, and Pygmalion is almost exclusively know from this story as well. Additionally, "Galatia" for the statue woman only dates to the 18th century, it's not an ancient name for her.--Cúchullain t/c 14:49, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with [[Pygmalion (mythology)]]? 

message: This article seems to deal exclusively with Galatea from the myth of Pygmalion.  There are other figures with the name "Galatea", notably the sea-nymph (Nereid) of that name mentioned in Homer's Iliad (II.18.45) and Hesiod's Theogony (250) (and described above in this talk page, as having been originally in this article). But all mention of her seems to have been removed since.  It would be useful to readers to have a note somewhere about this other Galatea.  Walrasiad (talk) 15:20, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sea nymph?