Pygmalion
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Pygmalion is a Greek name, probably going back to Phoenician roots. Pygmalion—or Pygmaion according to Hesychios of Alexandra—is probably a Cypriot form of Adonis, a Levantine vegetation-god.
Pygmalion may refer to the following:
- Pygmalion of Tyre, a king of Tyre
- Pygmalion (mythology), the name of a mythological sculptor who created an ivory statue, Galatea, and proceeds to fall in love with it.
- Pygmalian (opera), a 1748 opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau
- Pygmalion (play), a 1912 play by George Bernard Shaw
- Pygmalion (1938 film), a movie based on the play by George Bernard Shaw and produced by Gabriel Pascal
- Il Pigmalione, an 1816 opera by Donizetti
- Pygmalion (album), an album by Slowdive
Pygmalion may also refer to:
- In Virgil's masterpiece The Aeneid, Pygmalion is the cruel-hearted brother of Dido who secretly kills Dido's husband Sychaeus because of his lust for gold.
- The pygmalion effect, a concept in psychology describing the behavior of individuals as people expect them to behave
- Pygmalionism (aka statuephilia or agalmatophilia), an erotic attraction to statues or immobility.
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