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Pygmalion

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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 (dī`dō), in Roman mythology, queen of Carthage, also called Elissa. She was the daughter of a king of Tyre.
..... 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
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