Pygmalion (pĭgmāl`yən).

1 In Greek mythology, king of Cyprus. He fell in love with a beautiful statue of a woman. When he prayed to Aphrodite for a wife like it, the goddess brought the statue to life and Pygmalion married her. In one version of the legend, the statue becomes Aphrodite; another states that Pygmalion sculpted the statue himself and that after coming to life it was called Galatea.

2 In Vergil's Aeneid, king of Tyre. He was the brother of Dido Dido , in Roman mythology, queen of Carthage, also called Elissa. She was the daughter of a king of Tyre. After her brother Pygmalion murdered her husband, she fled to Libya, where she founded and ruled Carthage.
..... Click the link for more information. and killed her husband, Sychaeus, to get his riches.

Pygmalion

In Greek mythology, a king of Cyprus who fell in love with a statue of Aphrodite. The goddess took pity on him and brought the statue to life, and he married her. In some versions of the myth Pygmalion was a sculptor who carved the statue himself because he was disgusted with the faults of ordinary women, and when it was brought to life he gave it the name Galatea.

Pygmalion

carved so beautiful and lifelike a statue that he fell in love with it. [Gk. Myth.: Benét]

See : Artistic Skill

Pygmalion

sculpts beautiful image which comes to life. [Rom. Lit.: Metamorphoses]

See : Craftsmanship

in mythology:

(1) King of Tyre and brother of Dido (Elissa), the legendary founder of Carthage. Pygmalion slew Dido’s husband in order to take possession of his wealth.

(2) King of Cyprus, and sculptor, who fell in love with a statue he had sculpted of the girl Galatea. In answer to his prayers, Aphrodite brought the statue to life. There are also other variants of the myth.

The name “Pygmalion” has come to signify someone who falls in love with his own creation. The subject has been used repeatedly in literature and art—by Ovid, J.-J. Rousseau, B. Shaw, F. Boucher, E.-M. Falconet, and others.

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As will be seen later on, Pygmalion needs, not a preface, but a sequel, which I have supplied in its due place.

Pygmalion by Shaw, George Bernard View in context

, gave my father, insomuch that I was mad with grief when they told me that the story of Pygmalion was nothing but a fable.

Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context

Even Pygmalion, when his sculptured woman assumed life, felt not greater ecstasy than mine will be.

Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

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