Pygmalion
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Pygmalion is a Greek name. Pygmalion—or Pygmaion according to Hesychios of Alexandra—is probably a Cypriot form of Adonis, a Levantine vegetation-god.
It may refer to:
- Pygmalion (mythology), in ancient Greek mythology, a sculptor who fell in love with his statue
- Pygmalion of Tyre, a King of Tyre
- also a character in Virgil's masterpiece, the Aeneid
In the arts, the mythical character is depicted or is alluded to in (listed in roughly chronological order) the following:
- Pigmalion (opera), a 1748 opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau
- Pygmalion (1762 play), a short play by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Pygmalion (opera), a late 18th century duodrama opera by Georg Anton Benda
- Il Pigmalione, an 1816 opera by Gaetano Donizetti
- Pygmalion and Galatea, an 1871 play by W. S. Gilbert
- Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed a musical comedy composed by Meyer Lutz
- Pygmalion (play), a 1912 play by George Bernard Shaw
- Pygmalion, a 1938 movie based on the play by George Bernard Shaw
- My Fair Lady a 1956 musical and a 1964 movie by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe based on Shaw's play
- Pygmalion (album), by Slowdive
In psychology:
- The pygmalion effect, a concept in psychology describing the behavior of individuals as people expect them to behave
- Pygmalionism or agalmatophilia, an erotic attraction to statues or immobility
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