Pygmalion
A king of Cyprus, is said to have fallen in love with an ivory statue of a maiden he had himself made, and to have prayed Aphrodité to breathe life into it. The request being granted, he married the maiden and became by her the father of Paphus.
Pygmalion is a Greek name, probably going back to Phoenician roots. Pygmalion—or Pygmaion according to Hesychios of Alexandra—is probably a Cypriote form of Adonis, a Levantine vegetation-god.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPygmalion may refer to the following:
Pygmalion, a king of Tyre, brother of Queen Dido of Carthage.
Pygmalion, Cyprus, a mythical king of Cyprus, father of Metharme,
grandfather of Adonis.
Pygmalion, a 1912 play by George Bernard Shaw.
Pygmalion, a 1938 movie based on the play by George Bernard Shaw
and produced by Gabriel Pascal.
The mythological sculptor Pygmalion who falls in love with a
statue he has made, from a poem by the roman poet Ovid.
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, named
after the myth of Pygmalion.
Pygmalionism (aka statuephilia or agalmatophilia), an erotic
attraction to statues or immobility.
An adventure and role playing game system currently under
development.
