Galatea

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Galatea is an ancient Greek name meaning "she who is milk-white".

Galatea, Galathea or Gallathea may refer to:

In mythology

• Galatea (mythology):
  • Galatea, a woman who prayed for her daughter to be turned into a son, Leucippus
  • Galatea, a sea-nymph in Ovid's story of Acis and Galatea
  • Galatea, name given in the 18th century to the animated statue sculpted by Pygmalion

In the arts

• Galatea (Raphael), or The Triumph of Galatea, a 1512 fresco of Ovid's sea-nymph
• Gallathea, a late 16th-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
• La Galatea, a 16th-century pastoral novel by Miguel de Cervantes
• Galatea, a 1953 novel by James M. Cain
• Galatea, a 1976 novel by Philip Pullman
• Galatea, a 1977 ballet film with Ekaterina Maximova and Māris Liepa
• 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)

Fictional characters

• Galatea (God-Eye Galatea), in Norihiro Yagi's Claymore
• Galatea Brand, in Ian Fleming's 1953 novel Moonraker
• Galatea Dunkel, in Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road
• Galatea, an android in the 2007 novel Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
• Galatea, a villain in the 1990s anime series Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040
• Galatea (Justice League Unlimited), a supervillain and clone of Supergirl, first appearing in 2004
• Galatea, a female robot in Bicentennial Man (film)
• Galathea ("milk-goddess"), in J. R. R. Tolkien's Farmer Giles of Ham, Farmer Giles' favorite cow

In science

• 74 Galatea, a large main belt asteroid
• Galatea (moon), orbiting Neptune
• Galathea, a genus of squat lobsters
• Galatea, common name for plants of the genus Dieffenbachia

Places

• Galatea, New Zealand, a village in the North Island
• Galatea, Ohio, a community in the United States
• Mount Galatea, in the Canadian Rockies
• Galathea National Park, a national park in the Nicobar Islands, India

Ships

• HMS Galatea, eight ships of the British Royal Navy
• THV Galatea, two ships operated by Trinity House
• Galathea, the ship used in the first of the Danish Galathea expeditions, from 1845-1847
• Galatea (yacht), the 1886 America's Cup challenger
• Galatea, launched in 1896 as the Glenlee (ship), a training tall ship of the Spanish Navy from 1922–1969
• HDMS Galathea, formerly HMS Leith (U36), a survey ship of the Royal Danish Navy

Other

• Galatea (locomotive), a preserved example of the LMS Jubilee class of steam locomotive
• Galatea II a Thoroughbred racehorse
• Galatea, a type of cotton twill fabric

See also

• Galatea of the Spheres, a 1952 painting by Salvador Dalí
• Galathée (disambiguation)